Online and Incremental Mining of Separately-Grouped Web Access Logs

  • Authors:
  • Yew Kwong Woon;Wee Keong Ng;Ee-Peng Lim

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WISE '02 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The rising popularity of electronic commerce makes datamining an indispensable technology for business competitiveness.The World Wide Web provides abundant raw datain the form of web access logs, web transaction logs andweb user profiles. Without data mining tools, it is impossibleto make any sense of such massive data. In this paper,we focus on web usage mining because it deals most appropriatelywith understanding user behavioral patterns whichis the key to successful customer relationship management.Previous work deals separately on specific issues of web usagemining and make assumptions without taking a holisticview and thus, have limited practical applicability. We formulatea novel and more holistic version of web usage min-ingtermed TRAnsactionized LOgfile Mining (TRALOM)to effectively and correctly identify transactions as well asto mine useful knowledge from web access logs. We alsointroduce a new data structure, called the Webrie, to efficientlyhold useful preprocessed data so that TRALOM canbe done in an online and incremental fashion. Experimentsconducted on real web server logs verify the usefulness andpracticality of our proposed techniques.