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Mining and Analysis of Clickstream Patterns

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Foundations of Computational, IntelligenceVolume 6

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The explosive growth of the web has drastically changed the way in which information is managed and accessed. The large-scale of web data sources and the wide availability of services over the internet have increased the need for effective web data mining techniques and mechanisms . A sophisticated method to organize the layout of the information and assist user navigation is therefore particularly important. In this work, we focus on web usage mining, applying data mining techniques to web server logs. Web usage mining is the non-trivial process of distinguishing implicit, previously unknown but potentially useful clickstream patterns that may exist in any collection of web access logs. The required abstraction can be generated by clustering the web access logs based on some sort of similarity measure. Clustering is done such that the web access logs within the same group or cluster are more similar than data points from different clusters. In this chapter, we propose a partitional algorithm namely Multi Pass Combined Standard Deviation(CSD) Means algorithm which automatically generates the optimum number of clusters from the web clickstream patterns. The quality of clusters obtained using these algorithms are compared using K-Means algorithm, Rough K-Means algorithm and model based algorithms ANTCLUST and ACCANTCLUST. The experimental analysis of mined clickstream patterns shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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Inbarani, H.H., Thangavel, K. (2009). Mining and Analysis of Clickstream Patterns. In: Abraham, A., Hassanien, AE., de Leon F. de Carvalho, A.P., Snášel, V. (eds) Foundations of Computational, IntelligenceVolume 6. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01091-0_1

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