Using webcrawling of publicly-available websites to assess e-commerce relationships

Annual SRII Global Conference, SRII

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 402-410

  Thorleuchter, Dirk ^a   Van Den Poel, Dirk ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INT   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

B B; Classification; Success factor; SVD; Textmining; Website

Indexed keywords

B-B; B2B E-COMMERCE; B2C E-COMMERCE; BUSINESS TO BUSINESS; REGRESSION MODELING; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SUCCESS FACTORS; TEXT-MINING; TEXTUAL PATTERNS; WEB SITE CONTENTS; WEBSITE QUALITY;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; WEBSITES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 84874809994     PISSN: 21660778     EISSN: 21660786     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRII.2012.106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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