Searching the Unsearchable: Inducing Serendipitous Insights Export

@misc{citeulike:271549, abstract = {Although no serious efforts seem to have been devoted yet to the theoretical and experimental study of the phenomenon, the web is recognizably a well suited medium for information encountering, the accidental discovery of information that is not sought for. This is the very essence of serendipity, the faculty of making fortunate and unexpected discoveries by accident. This paper presents Max, a sof t ware agent that uses simple information retrieval techniques and heuristic search to wander on...}, author = {Campos, J. and Figueiredo, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {271549}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.7895}, keywords = {serendipity}, posted-at = {2006-05-03 01:58:06}, priority = {0}, title = {Searching the Unsearchable: Inducing Serendipitous Insights}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.7895}, year = {2001} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:271549 L3 - citeulike-article-id:271549 N2 - Although no serious efforts seem to have been devoted yet to the theoretical and experimental study of the phenomenon, the web is recognizably a well suited medium for information encountering, the accidental discovery of information that is not sought for. This is the very essence of serendipity, the faculty of making fortunate and unexpected discoveries by accident. This paper presents Max, a sof t ware agent that uses simple information retrieval techniques and heuristic search to wander on... TI - Searching the Unsearchable: Inducing Serendipitous Insights KW - serendipity AU - Campos, J AU - Figueiredo, A PY - 2001/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.20.7895 ER -