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A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the World-Wide Web

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Robert B. Doorenbos,

Oren Etzioni,

Daniel S. WeldAuthors Info & Claims

AGENTS '97: Proceedings of the first international conference on Autonomous agents

Pages 39 - 48

https://doi.org/10.1145/267658.267666

Published: 08 February 1997 Publication History

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DOI:10.1145/267658

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