Description and prediction of Slashdot activity

Proceedings - 2007 Latin American Web Conference, LA-WEB 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 57-66

  Kaltenbrunner, Andreas ^a,b   Gómez, Vicenç ^a,b   López, Vicente ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Barcelona Media Innovation Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS; COMMUNITY IS; KOLMOGOROV; PREDICTION METHODS; REACTION TIMES; SMIRNOV TESTS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; USER BEHAVIORS;

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 47849115649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWEB.2007.4383159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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