Knowledge discovery from web usage data: Extraction and applications of sequential and clustering patterns - a survey

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 381-389

  Raju, G T ^a   Satyanarayana, P S ^a   Patnaik, L M ^b  

^a BMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Clustering; KDWUD; Sequential patterns; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649090135     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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