Prediction of user's web-browsing behavior: Application of markov model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1131-1142

  Awad, Mamoun A ^a   Khalil, Issa ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

All K th Markov; association rule mining (ARM); Markov model; N gram; two tier architecture

Indexed keywords

ALL-K TH MARKOV; BENCHMARK DATA; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; MARKOV MODEL; MODELING COMPLEXITY; N-GRAM; PREDICTION ACCURACY; TRAINING EXAMPLE; TWO-TIER ARCHITECTURE; WEB PREDICTION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; FORECASTING;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84864147184     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2012.2187441     Document Type: Article

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