Personalized information retrieval and access concepts, methods and practices /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Gonzáles, Rafael Andrés., Chen, Nong, 1976-, Dahanayake, Ajantha, 1954-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Database searching.; Information retrieval.; Web services.; Agent technology; Content personalization method; Context-aware information retrieval and access; Digital library; E-commerce; Global information retrieval; Global information technology; Information filtering systems; Meta search engine; Multi-agent architecture; Personalization algorithms; Personalized information retrieval and access; Recommender systems; Search engine; Semantic Web; Situation-aware information retrieval and access; User modeling and profiling; Web mining
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xx, 348 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781599045122 (ebook); 1599045125 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

"This book surveys the main concepts, methods, and practices of personalized information retrieval and access in today's data intensive, dynamic, and distributed environment, and provides students, researchers, and practitioners with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of globally distributed information retrieval and anywhere, anytime information access"--Provided by publisher.