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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2002
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ647598 |
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- Stochastic Modeling of Usage Patterns in a Web-Based Information System. Chen, Hui-Min Cooper, Michael D. Academic Libraries Higher Education Library Catalogs Markov Processes Models Online Catalogs Use Studies Users (Information) World Wide Web Uses continuous-time stochastic models, mainly based on semi-Markov chains, to derive user state transition patterns, both in rates and in probabilities, in a Web-based information system. Describes search sessions from transaction logs of the University of California's MELVYL library catalog system and discusses sequential dependency. (Author/LRW)