On the relationships between user profiles and navigation sessions in virtual communities: A data-mining approach

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 579-600

  Garatti, Simone ^a   Savaresi, Sergio M ^a   Bittanti, Sergio ^a   La Brocca, Luca ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Tiscali Italia SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

data mining; heterogeneous data; PDDP; profiled users; sessions; unsupervised clustering; Virtual communities; web log files

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NAVIGATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

HETEROGENEOUS DATA; PDDP; PROFILED USERS; SESSIONS; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEB LOG FILE;

DATA MINING;

EID: 38149062675     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2004-8605     Document Type: Article

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