Scalable Internet resource discovery: research problems and approaches
Communications of the ACM
Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Browsing is a collaborative process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A technique for measuring the relative size and overlap of public Web search engines
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
The Design of Intelligent Agents: A Layered Approach
The Design of Intelligent Agents: A Layered Approach
The Java Programming Language
WUM - A Tool for WWW Ulitization Analysis
WebDB '98 Selected papers from the International Workshop on The World Wide Web and Databases
Letizia: an agent that assists web browsing
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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Many research areas related to Internet (resource discovery, intelligent browsing and navigation, data search and retrieval...) are developing agents and adaptive systems whose main target is to help the user to manage the large quantity of information available through Internet. A detailed knowledge of users behaviour when navigating or using services provided by Internet is a vital component for many of these agents and systems. There are other areas (data mining, data caching, web design...) where getting a thorough knowledge of Internet dynamics and ergonomics is advisable. They could also profit by a precise description of the user behaviour. Nowadays Internet user behaviour traces are mainly collected at the servers or proxies. Detecting the behaviour at the server-side provides just a partial vision of the user, where only the behaviour inside the server is controlled. Furthermore, many behaviour features which appear at the client-side are impossible to detect by the server. In this paper we introduce Ergotracer, a distributed, cross-platform, lightweight tool that gathers in detail the behaviour of a user navigating the web.