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7.4.3 Financial Forecasting through Evolutionary
Algorithms and Neural Networks 279
7.4.4 Independent Component Analysis for Financial
Time Series 282
7.4.5 Subsequence Matching of Financial Streams 282
7.4.6 Detection of Outliers in Financial Data 283
7.4.7 Stock Portfolio Diversication Using the Fractal
Dimension 284
7.5 ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 284
REFERENCES 286
8Ch a p t e r ▪ Web Usage Mining 293
8.1 GENERAL CONCEPTS 293
8.1.1 Preprocessing 294
8.1.2 Pattern Discovery and Analysis in Web Usage 295
8.1.3 Business Applications of Web Usage Mining 296
8.2 WEB USAGE MINING ALGORITHMS 297
8.2.1