Behavioral Sequences: A New Log-Coding Scheme for Effective Prediction of Web User Accesses

  • Authors:
  • Rushed Kanawati;Maria Malek

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AH '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Mining web site logs for predicting user actions is a central issue in the field of adaptive web site development. In order to match the dynamic nature of today web sites we propose in this paper a new scheme for coding Web server log data into sessions of behavioral sequences. Following the proposed coding scheme the navigation sessions are coded as a sequence of hypothetical actions that may explain the transition from one page to another. The output of a prediction algorithm will now be an action that can be evaluated in the context of the current navigation in order to find pages that to be visited by the user.