Web Usage Analysis and User Profiling: International WEBKDD'99 Workshop San Diego, CA, USA, August 15, 1999 Revised Papers

After the advent of data mining and its successful application on conventional data, Web—related information has been an appropriate and increasingly popular target of knowledge discovery. Depending on whether the data used in the knowledge discovery process concerns the Web itself in terms of content or the usage of the content, one distinguishes between Web content mining and Web usage mining.

This book is the first one entirely devoted to Web usage mining. It originates from the WEBKDD'...