Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach by George Chang, T. L. Wang, Marcus J. Healey, McHugh James A. M.

Synopsis

Primarily for researchers and developers of Web information systems, mathematicians explore the concepts and techniques of Web mining, a field of computer science research with potential in electronic business. Their information search perspective focuses on issues relating to the efficiency, feasibility, scalability, and usability of searching techniques. They begin by explaining information retrieval on the Web and such aspects of it as the automated storage, retrieval, organization, and representation of documents. Then they consider data mining, or extracting knowledge from large amounts of data, and its stages including data cleaning, integration, filtering, and transformation; pattern analysis; and knowledge representation.

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