Impact of different pre-processing tasks on effective identification of users' behavioral patterns in web-based educational system

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 1640-1649

  Munk, Michal ^a   Drlík, Martin ^a  

^a University in Nitra   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Data preparation; Sequence rules; Session identification; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; DATA PREPARATION; DATA PREPROCESSING; DATA SETS; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING CONTENTS; LEARNING PATHS; PATH RECONSTRUCTION; PRE-PROCESSING; SEQUENCE RULES; SESSION IDENTIFICATION; WEB USAGE MINING; WEB-BASED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS;

CURRICULA; DATA HANDLING; USER INTERFACES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79958278321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2011.04.177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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