COWES: Web user clustering based on evolutionary web sessions

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 867-885

  Chen, Ling ^b   Bhowmick, Sourav S ^a   Nejdl, Wolfgang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolutionary pattern mining; Historical web session; Web Usage Mining; Web user clustering

Indexed keywords

BROWSING PATTERNS; CLUSTERING WEB; EVOLUTIONARY PATTERN MINING; HISTORICAL WEB SESSION; INFORMATION NEED; LONG TERM; USAGE DATA; WEB APPLICATION; WEB CACHING; WEB COMMUNITY; WEB SESSIONS; WEB USAGE; WEB USAGE MINING; WEB USER CLUSTERING; WEB USERS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MINING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 69249222586     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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