NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY FOR PHYSICS, INFORMATICS AND MATHEMATICS
 
DIPLOMA THESIS
 
Name of Candidate: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen

Student at the Information Systems Group

The Title of the Thesis: Dewey Goes Surfing: Agent-Based Information Retrieval and Classification Support
 

« The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are becoming major factors in the world of information, education, trade and entertainment. The number of resources offered by various sites on the WWW is growing fast, and they all scream for attention. Due to the vast amounts of information available, it is difficult both for the sites to make themselves visible to the users they want to attract, and for the users to locate the sites they really want to find.

The thesis should aim to come up with suggestions for how a search tool can be created to improve the situation for both service providers and Internet users.  »
 

Thesis started:  August 25, 1997
Thesis delivered: February 9, 1998
Thesis written at: Department of Computer and Information Science
Supervisor: Babak Amin Farshchian
 

Trondheim, February 9, 1998
 

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Table of Contents

FRONT PAGE
ABSTRACT
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES AND LIST OF TABLES
 

APPENDIX A: GLOSSARY
APPENDIX B: REFERENCES
 

Go to: Front page - Index - Ch. 1 - Ch. 2 - Ch. 3 - Ch. 4 - Ch. 5 - Ch. 6 - Ch. 7 - Ch. 8 - Ch. 9 - Glossary - References
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