—The number of resources or items that users can now access when navigating on the Web or using e-services, is so huge that these might feel lost due to the presence of too much ...
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...
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
The rapid development of Internet has resulted in more and more multimedia in Web content. However, due to the limitation in the bandwidth and huge size of the multimedia data, us...
The rise of social media sites — blogs, wikis, and Digg — underscores the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are collaboratively creating, eval...