Locating central travelers' groups in travel blogs' social networks

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 595-609

  Vrana, Vasiliki ^a   Zafiropoulos, Kostas ^b  

^a Technological Institute of Serres ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Communication; Networking; Online operations; Travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957293228     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410391011083056     Document Type: Article

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