Online Information Review: Volume 32 Issue 2

Web‐mining applications in e‐commerce and e‐services

The purpose of this guest editorial is to introduce the papers in this special issue.

Interest mining in virtual learning environments

Behaviour in virtual learning environments (VLE), including travel, gaze, manipulate, gesture and conversation, offer considerable information about the user's implicit interest…

An application of web‐based data mining: selling strategies for online auctions

Purpose – This study aims to introduce an application of web‐based data mining that integrates online data collection and data mining in selling strategies for online auctions…

Mining e‐services in P2P‐based workflow enactments

This paper aims to explore the feasible mining and proper selection of QoS‐aware services for a P2P‐based business process enactment framework, and enhance the relevant workflow…

An overview of web mining in societal benefit areas

The focus of this paper is a survey of web‐mining research related to areas of societal benefit. The article aims to focus particularly on web mining which may benefit societal…

Extracting inter‐firm networks from the World Wide Web using a general‐purpose search engine

Purpose – Social relations play an important role in a real community. Interaction patterns reveal relations among actors (such as persons, groups, firms), which can be merged to…

Perceptual navigation in web mining

This paper aims to present an epistemological perspective of how web mining can be performed by human agents, and a technical overview of a possible approach to achieve this.

Locating online loan applicants for an insurance company

This study aims to investigate insurance policy loan applicant characteristics. Additionally, it reveals the behaviour patterns of heavy users who have applied for at least two…

A rapid egocentric search scheme using authority estimation in blog space

The purpose of this study is to improve the egocentric search speed for important documents in neighbouring blogs.

eLORM: learning object relationship mining‐based repository

This paper aims to explore the feasibility of using web‐mining technology on learning object (LO) usage information to discover the LO relation pattern and provide valuable…

The plausibility of computing the h‐index of scholarly productivity and impact using reference‐enhanced databases

This paper aims to provide a general overview, to be followed by a series of papers focusing on the analysis of pros and cons of the three largest, cited‐reference‐enhanced…

Digital Health Information for the Consumer: Evidence and Policy Implications

Digital Information Contexts: Theoretical Approaches to Understanding Digital Information

Journal of Web Librarianship

Knitting the Semantic Web

Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

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