Websites are a central part of today's business world; however, with the vast amount of information that constantly changes and the frequency of required updates, this can come at a high cost to modern businesses. Web Data Mining and the Development of Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems is a key reference source on decision support systems in view of end user accessibility and identifies methods for extraction and analysis of useful information from web documents. Featuring extensive coverage across a range of relevant perspectives and topics, such as semantic web, machine learning, and expert systems, this book is ideally designed for web developers, internet users, online application developers, researchers, and faculty.

As the Internet has evolved to become an integral part of modern society, the need for better quality assurance practices in web engineering has heightened. Adherence to and improvement of current standards ensures that overall web usability and accessibility are at optimum efficiency. Design Solutions for Improving Website Quality and Effectiveness is an authoritative reference source for the latest breakthroughs, techniques, and research-based solutions for the overall improvement of the web designing process. Featuring relevant coverage on the analytics, metrics, usage, and security aspects of web environments, this publication is ideally designed for reference use by engineers, researchers, graduate students, and web designers interested in the enhancement of various types of websites.

As the Internet becomes increasingly interconnected with modern society, the transition to online business has developed into a prevalent form of commerce. While there exist various advantages and disadvantages to online business, it plays a major role in contemporary business methods. Improving E-Commerce Web Applications Through Business Intelligence Techniques provides emerging research on the core areas of e-commerce web applications. While highlighting the use of data mining, search engine optimization, and online marketing to advance online business, readers will learn how the role of online commerce is becoming more prevalent in modern business. This book is an important resource for vendors, website developers, online customers, and scholars seeking current research on the development and use of e-commerce.

Over the last few years there has been a remarkable increase in use of the World Wide Web (WWW) for a wide and variety of purposes. There was also a fast growth in its applications. On the one hand this led the Internet users to realize the importance and the benefits gained from a globally interconnected hypermedia system. Due to the increasing popularity of WWW, one can be very cautious in designing the website. Poor and careless web design leads to hardship to public utility and does not serve the purpose. The important quality attributes for web applications include reliability, availability, interoperability and security. Therefore methodologies for analyzing, constructing, understanding, testing and maintaining web applications will be essential to the IT industry. The quality assurance techniques for web applications generally focus on the prevention of web failure or the reduction of chances for such failures. The web failures are defined as the inability to obtain or deliver information such as documents or computational results requested by web users.