Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Silk from a sow's ear: extracting usable structures from the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization
Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization
Web Mining: Information and Pattern Discovery on the World Wide Web
ICTAI '97 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
A Web Usage Mining Framework for Mining Evolving User Profiles in Dynamic Web Sites
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A practical extension of web usage mining with intentional browsing data toward usage
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Web User Session Reconstruction Using Integer Programming
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications
Empirical observations on the session timeout threshold
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Web User Session Reconstruction with Back Button Browsing
KES '09 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: Part I
Metaheuristics: From Design to Implementation
Metaheuristics: From Design to Implementation
Separation of Interleaved Web Sessions with Heuristic Search
ICDM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
Discovering better navigation sequences for the session construction problem
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Combining ranking concept and social network analysis to detect collusive groups in online auctions
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology
SP '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Generation of Personalized Ontology Based on Consumer Emotion and Behavior Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
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Delivery of efficient service through a web site makes it compulsory in the redesigning stage to take into account the behavior of the users, which can be studied by means of a web log file that partially records information about user visits. The reconstruction of all of the sequences of pages that are visited by users who browse a web site is known as the web sessionization problem, and it has been formulated by means of an integer programming model; however, because a web log can accumulate a large amount of information, it is necessary to reconstruct the sessions over a period of weeks or months, thus the solution to this problem requires a long computational processing time. This paper presents a heuristic approach based on simulated annealing for the sessionization problem. Using this approach, it has been possible to reduce the processing time up to 166 times compared to the time that is required for the integer programming model. Furthermore, the metaheuristic solution finds new optimum values, which achieve increases on the order of 17% in the best cases.