Predicting student exam's scores by analyzing social network data

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7669 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 584-595

  Fire, Michael ^a   Katz, Gilad ^a   Elovici, Yuval ^a   Shapira, Bracha ^a   Rokach, Lior ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Data Mining; Machine Learning; Multi Graph; Score Prediction; Social Network Analysis; Web Log Analysis

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC COURSE; LOG DATA; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTI GRAPH; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS; WEB LOG ANALYSIS;

DATA MINING; FORECASTING; GRAPH THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 84870372432     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-35236-2_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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