Efficient and anonymous web-usage mining for web personalization

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 123-147

  Shahabi, Cyrus ^a   Banaei Kashani, Farnoush ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Data Mining; Pattern Discovery; Personalization; Web Usage Mining

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PATTERN DISCOVERY; PERSONALIZATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD); WEB-USAGE MINING (WUM);

DATA MINING;

EID: 3843113303     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.15.2.123.14444     Document Type: Review

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