The impact of site structure and user environment on session reconstruction in Web usage analysis

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2703, Issue , 2003, Pages 159-179

  Berendt, Bettina ^a   Mobasher, Bamshad ^b   Nakagawa, Miki ^b   Spiliopoulou, Myra ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data preparation; Sessionization heuristics; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HTML; HTTP; SERVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORLD WIDE WEB; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA PREPARATION; SESSIONIZATION HEURISTICS; WEB USAGE ANALYSIS; SESSION IDENTIFICATION; SESSION IDENTIFIERS; SESSION RECONSTRUCTION; WEB PERSONALIZATION; WEB USAGE MINING;

DATA REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 0242371067     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39663-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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