Modeling Web quality using a probabilistic approach: An empirical validation

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-31

  Malak, Ghazwa ^a   Sahraoui, Houari ^a   Badri, Linda ^b   Badri, Mourad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian Networks; Navigability design; Probabilistic approach; Quality evaluation; Web applications

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; WEBSITES;

EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; MANAGING UNCERTAINTY; NUMBER OF FACTORS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC; QUALITY EVALUATION; WEB APPLICATION; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 77954977647     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1806916.1806918     Document Type: Article

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