Identification of user patterns in social networks by data mining techniques: Facebook case

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 96 CCIS, Issue , 2010, Pages 145-153

  Bozkir, A Selman ^a   Guzin Mazman S ^a   Akçapinar Sezer, Ebru ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

association rules; decision trees; Facebook; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ACCESS FREQUENCY; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS; EDUCATIONAL TOOLS; FACEBOOK; PREDICTIVE DATA MINING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USAGE PATTERNS; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; DATA MINING; DECISION TREES; EDUCATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78049387481     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16032-5_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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