Creating meaningful data from web logs for improving the impressiveness of a website by using path analysis method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 2, 2009, Pages 6635-6644

  Das, Resul ^a   Turkoglu, Ibrahim ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Path analysis; Web log files; Web mining; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; DATA MINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEB DESIGN; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION CONCERNING; PATH ANALYSIS; WEB DESIGNERS; WEB LOG FILE; WEB MINING; WEB SERVERS; WEB USAGE MINING; WEBLOGS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 58349115608     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.08.067     Document Type: Article

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