The Use of Web Structure and Content to Identify Subjectively Interesting Web Usage Patterns

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 93-116

  Cooley, Robert ^a  

^a KXEN Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Experimentation; Measurement; Web usage mining; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544282729     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/767193.767194     Document Type: Article

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