Web Mining for E-commerce & E-services

Special issue call for papers from

A Journal Special Issue of Online Information Review

Overview

Web mining is a technique that applies data mining techniques to analyse different sources of data in the web (such as web usage data, web content data, and web structural data). With the rapidly growth of World Wide Web, it therefore becomes a very hot and popular topic in web research area. E-commerce and E-services are claimed could be killer applications for web mining, and web mining now also plays an important role for E-commerce website and E-services to understand how their websites and services are used and to provide better services for their customers and users.

Recently, many researches are focusing on developing new web mining techniques and algorithms, or devoting to improve traditional mining techniques. However, it is meaningless, if these techniques and algorithms have not been applied in real application environment. Therefore, it could be an important time to shift the research focus to application area, such as E-commerce and E-services

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

• Web Mining Application in E-commerce Customer Behaviour Analysis
• Web Mining Application in E-commerce Transaction Analysis
• Web Mining Application in E-commerce Website Design
• Web Mining Application in E-banking
• Web Mining Application in M-commerce
• Web Mining Application in Web Advertisement
• Web Mining Application in Search Engine
• Web Mining Application in Online Auction
• Web Mining Application in Online Knowledge Management
• Web Mining Application in Online Social Networking
• Web Mining Application in E-learning
• Web Mining Application in Blog Analysis
• Web Mining Application in Online Personalization and Recommendation Systems
• Web Mining and Intelligent Web Services
• Case and Empirical Studies

Important Dates

Title and Abstract Submission: as soon as possible
Manuscript Submission: 13/ June/ 2008
First Notification: 18/ July/ 2008
Second Version Submission: 15/ August/ 2008
Final Notification of Acceptance: 19/ September/ 2008
Special Issue Publication: 2009

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered in another forum. Manuscripts will be limited to 4000~10000 words in length. Articles should include 1-6 keywords, a structured abstract of no more than 250 words and an appropriate title. For more details about the format of manuscript, please visit the author guidelines page.

Please send your manuscript to iting@nuk.edu.tw 

Special Issue Guest Editor

Dr. I-Hsien Ting (iting@nuk.edu.tw)