Construction of Online Catalog Topologies Using Decision Trees

  • Authors:
  • David Yang;Wing-kin Sung;Siu-Ming Yiu;David Cheung;Wai-Shing Ho;Tak-Wah Lam;Sau-Dan Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WECWIS '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2000)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Organization of a web site is important to help users get the most out of the site. A good web site should help visitor's _nd the information they want easily. Visitors typically find information by searching for selected terms of interest or by following links from one web page to another. The first approach is more useful if the visitor knows exactly what he is seeking, while the second approach is useful when the visitor has less of a preconceived notion about what he wants. The organization of a web site is especially important in the latter case. Traditionally, web site organization is done by hand. In this paper, we introduce the problem of automatic web site construction and propose a solution for solving a major step of the problem based on decision tree algorithms. The solution is found to be useful in automatic construction of product catalogs.