WebKDD 2000

Web Mining for E-Commerce

Welcome to WebKDD 2000

Program Co-chairs

Ronny Kohavi, Blue Martini Myra Spiliopoulou, Humboldt U.

Jaideep Srivastava, Yodlee & Univ.

of Minnesota

Workshop Arrangements

Brij Masand, Redwood Investments

Program Committee

Paul Alpar, U of Marburg Jonathan Becher, Accrue Michael Berry, Data Miners Alan Broder, Woti Llew Mason, Blue Martini Jesus Mena, WebMiner Brad Miller, NetPerceptions Anne Milley, SAS Alex Buechner, MineIt Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul U Robert Cooley, GroupFire Guenter Mueller, U of Freiberg Usama Fayyad, digiMine Anant Jhingran, IBM Vipin Kumar, U. of Minnesota Brian Lent, Amazon.com

Brij Masand , Redwood Maurice Mulvenna, MineIt John Roddick, Filners U.

Alex Tuzhilin, NYU Maria Zemankova, NSF Zijian Zheng, Blue Martini Investments

Paper Review

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31 submissions Each reviewed by at least 2 PC members 7 accepted as long papers (25 minutes) 6 accepted as short papers (15 minutes)

WEBKDD 2000: Program Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA 8:45

Arrival of Attendees

9:00

Opening & Welcome

9:15

Session I: Web Personalization and Recommender Systems 9:15 Discovery of Aggregate Usage Profiles for Web Personalization, Bamshad Mobasher, Honghua Dai, Tao Luo, Miki Nakagawa, Yuqing Sun, Jim Wiltshire 9:40 A Regression-Based Approach for Scaling-Up Personalized Recommender Systems in E-Commerce, Slobodan Vucetic and Zoran Obradovic

10:05

Coffee Break

10:30

Session I: Continued 10:30 Application of Dimensionality Reduction in Recommender System - A Case Study, Badrul M. Sarwar, George Karypis, Joseph A. Konstan, John T. Riedl 10:55 Collaborative Recommendation via Adaptive Association Rule Mining, Weiyang Lin, Sergio A. Alvarez, Carolina Ruiz 11:10 A Synthesized Learning Approach for Web-Based CRM, Wei-Lun Chang, Soe-Tsyr Yuan

11:25

Lunch Break

WEBKDD 2000: Program Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA 12:30

Session II: Mining Frameworks and Case-Studies 12:30 Integrating E-Commerce and Data Mining: Architecture and Challenges, Suhail Ansari, Ron Kohavi, Llew Mason, and Zijian Zheng 12:55 Analyzing the footsteps of your customers, A case study by ASK|net and SAS Institute GmbH , Christiane Theusinger, Klaus-Peter Huber 1:20 The Marriage of Market Basket Analysis to Predictive Modeling:

The Essential Challenge in Exploiting Web-Log Files for Prediction,

Sanford Gayle 1:35 A Framework for Self Adaptive Websites: Tactical versus Strategic Changes, Filip Coenen, Gilbert Swinnen, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets

1:50

Break

2:00

Session III: Navigation Analysis 2:00 Web usage mining, site semantics, and the support of navigation , Bettina Berendt 2:25 Navigation Analysis Tool based on the Correlation between Contents Distribution and Access Patterns, Hiroki Kato, Takehiro Nakayama, Yohei Yamane 2:50 Mining web navigation path fragments, Wolfgang Gaul, Lars Schmidt-Thieme 3:05 Modeling of Web Robot Navigational Patterns, Pang-Ning Tan, Vipin Kumar

3:20

Closing Discussion Summary, Open discussions, Future of WebKDD community

4:00

End