Separating the swarm: Categorization methods for user sessions on the Web

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 243-250

  Heer, Jeffrey ^a   Chi, Ed H ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Clustering; Data Mining; User Categorization; User Patterns; User Profile; User Study; Web Mining; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATA MINING;

USER PATTERNS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0038156219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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