Discovering user communities on the Internet using unsupervised machine learning techniques

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 761-791

  Paliouras, G ^a   Papatheodorou, C ^b   Karkaletsis, Vangelis ^a   Spyropoulos, Costass D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Machine learning; User communities; User modelling; Web mining

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

USER COMMUNITIES;

INTERNET;

EID: 0036891555     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(02)00015-2     Document Type: Article

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