Time-aware web users clustering

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 653-667

  Petridou, Sophia G ^a   Koutsonikola, Vassiliki A ^a   Vakali, Athena I ^a   Papadimitriou, Georgios I ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Access time; Navigation; Web mining; Web users clustering

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TIME; CLUSTERING APPROACH; CLUSTERING SCHEME; SIMILAR ACCESS; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; TIME PERIODS; USAGE PATTERNS; WEB MINING; WEB USERS; WEB USERS CLUSTERING;

ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 53149104693     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.190741     Document Type: Article

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