Web co-word analysis for business intelligence in the Chinese environment

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 653-667

  Vaughan, Liwen ^a   Yang, Rongbin ^b   Tang, Juan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai   (China)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Chemical industries; China; Chinese environment; Data mining; Electronics industry; Information management; Web co link analysis; Web co word analysis; Web data mining

Indexed keywords

CHINA; CHINESE ENVIRONMENT; CO-WORD ANALYSIS; WEB CO-LINK ANALYSIS; WEB DATA MINING;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84870210081     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012531211281788     Document Type: Article

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