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...
Emerging distributed technologies aim to provide simple and powerful tools for web services design and implementation. Main vendors provide modern frameworks so that a good coordi...
Most databases contain “name constants” like course numbers, personal names, and place names that correspond to entities in the real world. Previous work in integration of het...
The rapid e-commerce growth has made both business community and customers face a new situation. Due to intense competition on the one hand and the customer's option to choose...
—User profiles derived from Web navigation data are used in important e-commerce applications such as Web personalization, recommender systems, and Web analytics. In the open en...