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: CALL FOR PAPERS
: Decision Support Systems Journal
: Special Issue on Web Data Mining
: Guest Editors:
: Sid Bhattacharyya Gary J. Koehler
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: With an ever-increasing number of users, access sites and a range of electronic business activities, the Internet is witnessing a
: rapid growth of online data. There has arisen consequently the challenge of utilizing this wealth of data for improved business
: intelligence, better decision making, enhanced customer relations, better design of services and product offerings, etc.
: Individuals, too, in a digital networked society, have to contend with far greater information than one can analyze, understand or
: absorb. Adequate means for access, filtering and retrieval of web-based information, use of intelligent agents, and knowledge
: discovery and data mining processes are crucial for effective use of web resources and opportunities.
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: Data mining has emerged in recent years as an interdisciplinary field of study that includes machine learning, statistics, databases,
: optimization, data visualization, high performance computing, management information systems and knowledge based systems.
: This special issue of Decision Support Systems seeks high quality research papers related to the general theme of utilizing web
: based data. Papers may be rooted in any related discipline, and topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
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: Warehousing web data
: Web data capture and preparation
: Querying web data, analytical processing
: Intelligent retrieval and filtering
: User profiling, web personalization
: Analyzing web usage data
: Intelligent assistants and information agents
: Web based market research
: Direct marketing
: Structuring and managing the data mining process
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: The submission deadline for articles is July 31st , 2000. Authors are, however, encouraged to submit papers earlier. All papers
: will be peer reviewed. Four copies of papers should be submitted to either:
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: Gary J. Koehler Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
: Decision and Information Sciences Department Information and Decision Sciences Department
: Warrington College of Business College of Business Administration
: University of Florida University of Illinois at Chicago
: P.O. Box 117169, 351 Stuzin Hall 601 S. Morgan Street (MC 294)
: Gainesville, FL 32611 Chicago, IL 60607-7124
: koehler(a)ufl.edu sidb(a)uic.edu
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