Rough set based feature selection for web usage mining

Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, ICCIMA 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 33-38

  Inbarani, H Hannah ^a   Thangavel, K ^a   Pethalakshmi, A ^b  

^a PERIYAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MVM Government Arts College for Women   (India)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Preprocessing; Reduct; Rough set; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROUGH SET THEORY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA PREPROCESSING; WEB SERVERS; WEB USAGE DATA LOGS; WEB USAGE MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 41149163852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCIMA.2007.373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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