A novel scheme for information retrieval from e-learning repository

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-27

  Zafar, Aosim ^a   Hasan, Syed Hamid ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Domain knowledge representation; E Learnrng; Fuzzy clustering; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929885763     PISSN: 01279084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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