Internet user behavior: Compared study of the access traces and application to the discovery of communities

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 208-219

  Lancieri, Luigi ^a   Durand, Nicolas ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Data mining; Internet; Redundancy; Self similarity; User modeling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REDUNDANCY; WEBSITES;

INTERNET NAVIGATION TRACES; INTERNET USER BEHAVIOR; SELF-SIMILARITY; SOCIOCOGNITIVE; USER MODELING;

INTERNET;

EID: 30444449282     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.859095     Document Type: Article

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