Mining web navigations for intelligence

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 574-591

  Wu, Harris ^a   Gordon, Michael ^b,d   DeMaagd, Kurtis ^b,e   Fan, Weiguo ^c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Old Dominion University ^*  (United States)

^e Perl Foundation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information overload; Intelligence; Mining; Navigation analysis; Principal clusters analysis; Trend analysis; Web community

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION OVERLOAD; INTELLIGENCE; NAVIGATION ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL CLUSTERS ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WEB COMMUNITY;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 32544459935     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

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