User session identification based on strong regularities in inter-Activity time

WWW 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 410-418

  Halfaker, Aaron ^a   Keyes, Oliver ^a   Kluver, Daniel ^b   Thebault Spieker, Jacob ^b   Nguyen, Tien ^b   Shores, Kenneth ^b   Uduwage, Anuradha ^b   Warncke Wang, Morten ^b  

^a Wikimedia Foundation Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Analytics; Human behavior; Metrics; Modeling; Regularities; User session

Indexed keywords

MODELS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ANALYTICS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; METRICS; REGULARITIES; USER SESSIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84968918632     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2736277.2741117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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