Inclusion of reference agents in a virtual reference environment

Proceedings of the Mexican International Conference on Computer Science

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 246-251

  Medina, Ma A ^a   Chavez J A ^a   Benitez A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Automation; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Information management; Information resources; Ontologies; Software agents; Software libraries; Software tools

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE WORK; INFORMATION RESOURCE; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; VIRTUAL REFERENCE;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84942899531     PISSN: 15504069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ENC.2003.1232901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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