Webkdd 2002 - Mining Web Data for Discovering Usage Patterns and Profiles: 4th International Workshop Edmonton, Canada, July 23, 2002

by Zaiane, Osmar R.; Srviastava, Jaideep; Spiliopoulou, Myra; Masand, Brij

• ISBN13: 9783540203049
• ISBN10: 3540203044
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Mining Web Data, WEBKDD 2002, held in Edmonton, Canada, in July 2002. The 10 revised full papers presented together with a detailed preface went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were selected from 23 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on categorization of users and usage, prediction and recommendation, and evaluation of algorithms.

Table of Contents

LumberJack: Intelligent Discovery and Analysis of Web User Traffic Composition	1	(16)
Ed H. Chi, Adam Rosien, Jeffrey Heer
Mining eBay: Bidding Strategies and Shill Detection	17	(18)
Harshit S. Shah, Neeraj R. Joshi, Ashish Sureka, Peter R. Wurman
Automatic Categorization of Web Pages and User Clustering with Mixtures of Hidden Markov Models	35	(15)
Alexander Ypma, Tom Heskes
Web Usage Mining by Means of Multidimensional Sequence Alignment Methods	50	(16)
Birgit Hay, Geert Wets, Koen Vanhoof
A Customizable Behavior Model for Temporal Prediction of Web User Sequences	66	(20)
Enrique Frias-Martinez, Vijay Karamchetz
Coping with Sparsity in a Recommender System	86	(14)
André Bergholz
On the Use of Constrained Associations for Web Log Mining	100	(19)
Hui Yang, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Mining WWW Access Sequence by Matrix Clustering	119	(18)
Shigeru Oyanagi, Kazuto Kubota, Akihiko Nakase
Comparing Two Recommender Algorithms with the Help of Recommendations by Peers	137	(22)
Andreas Geyer-Schulz, Michael Hahsler
The Impact of Site Structure and User Environment on Session Reconstruction in Web Usage Analysis	159	(22)
Bettina Berendt, Bamshad Mobasher, Miki Nakagawa, Myra Spiliopoulou
Author Index	181