Studying the feasibility of a recommender in a citizen web portal based on user modeling and clustering algorithms

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 299-312

  Martín Guerrero, José D ^a   Palomares, Alberto ^b   Balaguer Ballester, Emili ^b   Soria Olivas, Emilio ^a   Gómez Sanchis, Juan ^a   Soriano Asensi, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Tissat SA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citizen web portal; Clustering; Collaborative recommender; User model; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

CITIZEN WEB PORTALS; CLUSTERING; COLLABORATIVE RECOMMENDER; USER MODELS; WEB USAGE MINING;

PORTALS;

EID: 28544434311     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.07.025     Document Type: Article

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