An in-depth study of various aspects of data collection, data extraction, and knowledge discovery on the Web for e-business intelligence. The primary topics covered in the course are Web usage mining, Web content mining, and Web structure mining. Techniques and applications for mining e-commerce and Web usage data for site management, personalization and user profiling. Also addressed are privacy issues, collaborative and content-based filtering. Techniques for harnessing semi-structured data through techniques based on text mining, and meta-data representation and manipulation using XML. PREREQUISITE(S): CSC 383 and (CSC 451 or CSC 453)
