Effective page recommendation algorithms based on distributed learning automata and weighted association rules

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1316-1330

  Forsati, R ^a   Meybodi, M R ^b,c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCES IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Learning automata; Machine learning; Personalization; Web mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING; HITS ALGORITHMS; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION SPACES; LEARNED PATTERNS; LEARNING AUTOMATA; MACHINE-LEARNING; MEMORY USAGE; NOVEL METHODS; OTHER ALGORITHMS; PERSONALIZATIONS; RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHMS; RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; WEB MINING; WEB PAGE; WEIGHTED ASSOCIATION RULES;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; AUTOMATA THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DATA MINING; EDUCATION; MINING; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WEBSITES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 71749090581     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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