Analysis and visualisation of structure of smartphone application services using text mining and the set-covering algorithm: A case of App Store

International Journal of Mobile Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-20

  Suh, Yongyoon ^a   Lee, Hakyeon ^b   Park, Yongtae ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Mobile communications; Representative services; Set covering algorithm; Smartphone application services; Structure of smartphone application services; Text mining; Visualisation techniques.

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVICES; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; REPRESENTATIVE SERVICES; SET COVERINGS; TEXT INFORMATION; TEXT-MINING; WEB DOCUMENT;

ALGORITHMS; SMARTPHONES; VISUALIZATION;

SIGNAL ENCODING;

EID: 84863131127     PISSN: 1470949X     EISSN: 17415217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2012.044520     Document Type: Article

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