Information overload-an IR problem?

Proceedings - String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium, SPIRE 1998

Volumn 1998-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 65-74

  Montebello, M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PROBLEMS; SEARCHING TECHNIQUES; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; WORLD WIDE WEBS (WWW);

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84891930051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPIRE.1998.712984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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