A multi-agent softbot to retrieve medical information on internet

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 150-154

  Baujard, Olivier ^a   Baujard, Vincent ^a   Aurel, Sandrine ^a   Boyer, Celia ^a   Appel, Ron D ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributed Artificial Intelligence; Document Filtering; Information Retrieval; Medical Search Engine

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION FILTERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DOCUMENT FILTERING; INFORMATION NETWORKS; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SEARCH ENGINES; MULTI AGENT;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DOCUMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84887792177     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-896-0-150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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