Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach explores the
concepts and techniques of Web mining, a promising and rapidly growing
field of computer science research. Web mining is a multidisciplinary
field, drawing on such areas as artificial intelligence, databases, data
mining, data warehousing, data visualization, information retrieval,
machine learning, markup languages, pattern recognition, statistics, and
Web technology. Mining the World Wide Web presents the Web mining
material from an information search perspective, focusing on issues
relating to the efficiency, feasibility, scalability and usability of
searching techniques for Web mining.
Mining the World Wide Web is designed for researchers and developers
of Web information systems and also serves as an excellent supplemental
reference to advanced level courses in data mining, databases and
information retrieval.