Probabilistic analysis and interdependence discovery in the user interactions of a video news on demand service

Computer Networks

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2038-2049

  García, Roberto ^a   Pañeda, Xabiel G ^a   Melendi, David ^a   Garcia, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multimedia systems; User modeling; Video on demand; Workload characterization

Indexed keywords

CLIENT INTERACTIVITY; CORRELATED DATA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ON-DEMAND SERVICES; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; SERVER LOGS; SINGLE VARIABLE; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; STREAMING SERVICE; UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; USER INTERACTION; USER MODELING; VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SERVICES; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

INTERNET; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 67549104891     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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