WEBKDD 2002 - Mining Web Data for Discovering Usage Patterns and Profiles

Srivastava Jaideep Zaiane Osmar R. Spiliopoulou Myra

ISBN 10: 3540203044 / ISBN 13: 9783540203049

Published by Springer, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WEBKDD 2002 - Mining Web Data for Discovering Usage Patterns and Profiles
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540203044
• ISBN 13: 9783540203049
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

1 WorkshopTheme Data mining as a discipline aims to relate the analysis of large amounts of user data to shed light on key business questions. Web usage mining in particular, a relatively young discipline, investigates methodologies and techniques that - dress the unique challenges of discovering insights from Web usage data, aiming toevaluateWebusability,understandtheinterestsandexpectationsofusersand assess the e?ectiveness of content delivery. The maturing and expanding Web presents a key driving force in the rapid growth of electronic commerce and a new channel for content providers. Customized o?ers and content, made possible by discovered knowledge about the customer, are fundamental for the establi- ment of viable e-commerce solutions and sustained and e?ective content delivery in noncommercial domains. Rich Web logs provide companies with data about their online visitors and prospective customers, allowing microsegmentation and personalized interactions. While Web mining as a domain is several years old, the challenges that characterize data analysis in this area continue to be formidable. Though p- processing data routinely takes up a major part of the e?ort in data mining, Web usage data presents further challenges based on the di?culties of assigning data streams to unique users and tracking them over time. New innovations are required to reliably reconstruct sessions, to ascertain similarity and di?erences between sessions, and to be able to segment online users into relevant groups.

Synopsis

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.