Special issue on Web mining applications in e-commerce and e-services
Overview
Web mining is a technique that applies data mining techniques to analyse different sources of data in the web (such as web usage data, web content data,and web structural data). With the rapidly growth of World Wide Web, it therefore becomes a very hot and popular topic in web research area. E-commerce and E-services are claimed could be killer applications for web mining, and web mining now also plays an important role for
E-commerce website and E-services to understand how their websites and services are used and to provide better services for their customers and users.Recently, many researches are focusing on developing new web mining techniques and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques. However,it is meaningless, if these techniques and algorithms have not been applied in real application environment. Therefore, it could be an important time to shift the research focus to application area, such as E-commerce and E-services
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Web mining application in e-commerce customer behaviour analysisWeb mining application in e-commerce transaction analysisWeb mining application in e-commerce website designWeb mining application in e-bankingWeb mining application in m-commerceWeb mining application in web advertisementWeb mining application in search engineWeb mining application in online auctionWeb mining application in online knowledge managementWeb mining application in online social networkingWeb mining application in e-learningWeb mining application in blog analysisWeb mining application in online personalization andRecommendation systemsWeb mining and intelligent web servicesCase and empirical studies.
Important dates
Title and abstract submission: as soon as possibleManuscript submission: 1 June 2007First notification: 29 June 2007Second version submission: 3 August 2007Final notification of acceptance:24 August 2007Special issue publication: December 2007
Paper submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 3,000-8,000 words in length. Articles should include 1-6 keywords, a structured abstract of no more than 250 words and an appropriate title. For more details about the format of manuscripts, please visit the author guidelines page.
Please submit your manuscript to www.easychair.org/WMAEE2007
Special issue Guest EditorsDr I-Hsien Ting (ihsien.ting@gmail.com)Dr Geeng-Neng You
