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In this paper, we focus on the problem of investigating user behavior using conceptual structures distilled from weblogs of an educational e-platform. We define a set of so-called attractors as sets of scales in conceptual time systems and compute user life tracks in order to highlight different types of behaviors. These life tracks can give valuable feedback to the instructor how his students are using the online educational resources, analyzing their behavior and extracting as much knowledge as possible from the log access files. This might also be helpful to analyze the usability of the online educational content, eventually for improving the structure of the platform and to develop new educational instruments.
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Diana Şotropa was supported by Tora Trading Services private scholarship.
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Dragoş, SM., Săcărea, C., Şotropa, DF. (2017). An Investigation of User Behavior in Educational Platforms Using Temporal Concept Analysis. In: Bertet, K., Borchmann, D., Cellier, P., Ferré, S. (eds) Formal Concept Analysis. ICFCA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10308. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59271-8_8
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