Evaluating and recommending Greek newspapers' websites using clustering

Program

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-91

  Kanellopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Kotsiantis, Sotiris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Greece; Newspapers; User studies; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856766964     PISSN: 00330337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00330331211204575     Document Type: Article

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