The reconstruction of user sessions from a server log using improved time-oriented heuristics

Proceedings - Second Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 315-322

  Zhang, Jie ^a   Ghorbani, Ali A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Session reconstruction; Web mining; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SERVERS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

HEURISTICS; SESSION RECONSTRUCTION; WEB MINING; WEB USAGE MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 4544226791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dnsr.2004.1344744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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