Scalable web data extraction for online market intelligence

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1512-1523

  Baumgartner, Robert ^a   Gottlob, Georg ^b   Herzog, Marcus ^a  

^a Lixto Software GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DATA WAREHOUSES; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; WEB CRAWLER;

APPLICATION AREA; DATA EXTRACTION; ELECTRONICS MARKETS; HIGH SCALABILITIES; MARKET INTELLIGENCE; ONLINE MARKETS; PRODUCT PRICING; WEB DATA EXTRACTION;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 77951613034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508097     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14778/1687553.1687580     Document Type: Article

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