A NOVEL WEB USAGE MINING METHOD - Mining and Clustering of DAG Access Patterns Considering Page Browsing Time

Koichiro Mihara, Masahiro Terabe, Kazuo Hashimoto

2008

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel method to analyze web access logs. The proposed method defines a web access pattern as a DAG with page browsing time, and extracts the patterns using the closed frequent embedded DAG mining algorithm, DIGDAG. The proposed method succeeds in extracting as small number of patterns as necessary minimum, and enables more efficient analysis by clustering the extracted results.

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Mihara K., Terabe M. and Hashimoto K. (2008). A NOVEL WEB USAGE MINING METHOD - Mining and Clustering of DAG Access Patterns Considering Page Browsing Time . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-27-2, pages 313-320. DOI: 10.5220/0001528303130320


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@conference{webist08,
author={Koichiro Mihara and Masahiro Terabe and Kazuo Hashimoto},
title={A NOVEL WEB USAGE MINING METHOD - Mining and Clustering of DAG Access Patterns Considering Page Browsing Time},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={313-320},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001528303130320},
isbn={978-989-8111-27-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - A NOVEL WEB USAGE MINING METHOD - Mining and Clustering of DAG Access Patterns Considering Page Browsing Time
SN - 978-989-8111-27-2
AU - Mihara K.
AU - Terabe M.
AU - Hashimoto K.
PY - 2008
SP - 313
EP - 320
DO - 10.5220/0001528303130320