Mining information and knowledge from large databases has been recognized by many
researchers as a key research topic in database systems and machine learning, and by …

An implicit, but pervasive view in the information science community is that people are
perpetual seekers after new public information, incessantly identifying and consuming new …

The major problem of many on-line web sites is the presentation of many choices to the
client at a time; this usually results to strenuous and time consuming task in finding the right …

Although atmospherics and flow experience are widely studied, the relationship between
online store atmospheric cues and flow experience has received a little attention …

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Much of the existing approach to the digital divide suffers from an important limitation. It is
based on a binary classification of Internet use by only considering whether someone is or is …

Classic IR (information retrieval) is inherently predicated on users searching for information,
the so-called" information need". But the need behind a web search is often not …

Web usage mining is the application of data mining techniques to discover usage patterns
from Web data, in order to understand and better serve the needs of Web-based …

A cornerstone of the law and economics approach to standard-form contracts is the informed-
minority hypothesis: in competitive markets, a minority of term-conscious buyers is sufficient …

The notion of self-similarity has been shown to apply to wide-area and local-area network
traffic. We show evidence that the subset of network traffic that is due to World Wide Web …