A probabilistic validation algorithm for web users' clusters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 4129-4134

  Pallis, George ^a   Angelis, Lefteris ^a   Vakali, Athena ^a   Pokorny, Jaroslav ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cluster Validity; Data Mining and Management; Web Data Clustering

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER VALIDITY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING AND MANAGEMENT; WEB DATA CLUSTERING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; QUERY LANGUAGES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 15744389428     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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