Web mining: A survey in the fuzzy framework

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-19

  Arotaritei, Dragos ^a   Mitra, Sushmita ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Information retrieval; Soft computing; Web mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERING; PERSONALIZATION; SOFT COMPUTING; WEB MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 4944256990     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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