Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

With the exponential growth of the available information on the World Wide Web, a
traditional search engine, even if based on sophisticated document indexing algorithms, has …

Despite the fact that adaptive hypermedia techniques have proven their ability to provide
user guidance and orientation in hyperspace, we do not currently see the widespread …

Motivation: Life stories of diseased and healthy individuals are abundantly available on the
Internet. Collecting and mining such online content can offer many valuable insights into …

The designing and delivering of a new online course is a crucial task for teachers that have
to face two main problems: building, or retrieving, and sequencing learning materials …

Location information on the Web is a precious asset for a multitude of applications and is
becoming an increasingly important dimension in Web search. Even though more and more …

A very common issue of adaptive Web-Based systems is the modeling of documents. Such
documents represent domain-specific information for a number of purposes. Application …

Identifying the pre-requisite relationships among learning objects is a crucial step for faculty
and instructional designers when they try to adapt them for delivery in their education …

Due to the huge amount of data produced on large social media, capturing useful content
usually implies to focus on subsets of data that fit with a pre-specified need. Considering the …