What's in a session: Tracking individual behavior on the web

Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, HT'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 173-182

  Meiss, Mark ^a,b   Duncan, John ^a   Gonçalves, Bruno ^a   Ramasco, José J ^b   Menczer, Filippo ^a,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Click stream; Navigation; Popularity; Web session; Web traffic

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE BEHAVIOR; BROWSING BEHAVIOR; CLICK STREAM; CLICKSTREAMS; DATA SETS; INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SCALE-FREE; USER IDENTITY; WEB SESSIONS; WEB TRAFFIC;

HYDRAULICS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70450183880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1557914.1557946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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