Drawbacks and solutions of applying association rule mining in learning management systems

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 305, Issue , 2007, Pages 13-22

  García, Enrique ^a   Romero, Cristóbal ^a   Ventura, Sebastián ^a   Calders, Toon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

E-LEARNING; MANAGEMENT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84884646819     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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