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Automatic identification of the interests of web users

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In the present article an approach to automatic determination of a user’s sphere of interests is proposed. The approach is based on a method involving clustering of documents which the user is interested in. The process of clustering of documents is reduced to a problem of discrete optimization for which quadratic-and linear-type models are proposed. Identification of interests makes it possible to determine the context of a request without any effort on the user’s part. Different methods are proposed for determining the context of a request. An ant algorithm for solving a quadratic-type discrete optimization problem is also proposed in the present study.

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Original Russian Text © R.M. Alguliev, R.M. Alyguliev, F.F. Yusifov, 2007, published in Avtomatika i Vychislitel’naya Tekhnika, 2007, No. 6, pp. 32–17.

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Alguliev, R.M., Alyguliev, R.M. & Yusifov, F.F. Automatic identification of the interests of web users. Aut. Conrol Comp. Sci. 41, 320–331 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411607060041

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