A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period before consumers had attr...
Abstract. This paper describes how to preserve integrity and confidentiality of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) model of provenance database. We show a method to preserve integrity ...
Online forums represent one type of social media that is particularly rich for studying human behavior in information seeking and diffusing. The way users join communities is a re...
Web users display their preferences implicitly by navigating through a sequence of pages or by providing numeric ratings to some items. Web usage mining techniques are used to ext...
The primary goal of Web usage mining is the discovery of patterns in the navigational behavior of Web users. Standard approaches, such as clustering of user sessions and discoveri...