Interval set clustering of web users using modified Kohonen self-organizing maps based on the properties of rough sets

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-225

  Lingras, Pawan ^a   Hogo, Mofreh ^b   Snorek, Miroslav ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Clustering; Interval sets; Kohonen self organizing maps; Rough sets; Unsupervised learning; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERING; INTERVAL SETS; KOHONEN SEL-ORGANIZED MAPS; ROUGH SETS; UNSUPERVIZED LEARNING; WEB MINING; WEB USAGE MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 11144312947     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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