time aspect

2 Dutch researchers analyze striking behavior of Web surfers

EurekAlert! - Mathematics and Statistics  Tue, 10/28/2008 - 22:00

(Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) What behavior do Web site visitors exhibit? Do they buy a specific product mainly on Mondays?

Do they always return at a certain time of day? Being able to recognize and make use of such patterns is lucrative business for companies.

Edgar de Graaf discovered that interesting patterns often contain a time aspect. Jeroen De Knijf developed methods to detect relevant patterns quicker.