A privacy-protecting business-analytics service for on-line transactions

International Journal of Electronic Commerce

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 115-150

  Berendt, Bettina ^a   Preibusch, Sören ^b   Teltzrow, Maximilian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Data mining; Electronic business; P3P; Privacy; Web analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649122624     PISSN: 10864415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEC1086-4415120306     Document Type: Article

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