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.LumberJack: Intelligent Discovery and Analysis of Web User
Traffic Composition
Mining eBay: Bidding Strategies and Shill Detection
Automatic Categorization of Web Pages and User Clustering with Mixtures of Hidden Markov Models
Web Usage Mining by Means of Multidimensional Sequence Alignment Methods
A Customizable Behavior Model for Temporal Prediction of Web User Sequences
Coping with Sparsity in a Recommender System
On the Use of Constrained Associations for Web Log Mining
Mining WWW Access Sequence by Matrix Clustering
Comparing Two Recommender Algorithms with the Help of Recommendations by Peers
The Impact of Site Structure and User Environment on Session Reconstruction in Web Usage Analysis
Author Index