Advances in Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis 8th International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery on the Web, WebKDD 2006 Philadelphia, USA, August 20, 2006 Revised Papers

Web mining and usage is a fast-moving and hugely important field of study. This new Springer text constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Mining Web Data, WEBKDD 2006, held in Philadelphia, USA in 2006. The 13 revised full papers presented together with a detailed preface went through two rounds of reviewing and improvement and were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. They cover a huge range of relevant topics.