Web analytics of user path tracing and a novel algorithm for generating recommendations in Open Journal Systems

Online Information Review

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 672-691

  Taraghi, Behnam ^a   Grossegger, Martin ^a   Ebner, Martin ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Open Journal System; Path analysis; Recommender system; Reseach based teaching; Web analytics

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED FILTERING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; HYBRID RECOMMENDATION; NAVIGATION STRUCTURES; OPEN JOURNAL SYSTEM; PATH ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WEB ANALYTICS;

PUBLISHING; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84884885637     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/OIR-09-2012-0152     Document Type: Article

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