E-commerce personalization and real-time site monitoring
Designing personalized user experiences in eCommerce
Lessons and Challenges from Mining Retail E-Commerce Data
Machine Learning
Web usage mining based on probabilistic latent semantic analysis
Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Incorporating contextual information in recommender systems using a multidimensional approach
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Server-friendly delta compression for efficient web access
Web content caching and distribution
Minimal knowledge anonymous user profiling for personalized services
IEA/AIE'2005 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Innovations in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Segmenting Customers from Population to Individuals: Does 1-to-1 Keep Your Customers Forever?
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Improving Linkage of Web Pages
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Web page revisitation revisited: implications of a long-term click-stream study of browser usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating Variable-Length Markov Chain Models for Analysis of User Web Navigation Sessions
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Online Consumer Search Depth: Theories and New Findings
Journal of Management Information Systems
ServiceFinder: A method towards enhancing service portals
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Website usage metrics: A re-assessment of session data
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
AWESOME: a data warehouse-based system for adaptive website recommendations
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
Not quite the average: An empirical study of Web use
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
On web browsing privacy in anonymized NetFlows
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A hybrid system for concept-based web usage mining
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
SRDFA: A Kind of Session Reconstruction DFA
NPC '08 Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing
Web User Session Reconstruction Using Integer Programming
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Trustworthy knowledge diffusion model based on risk discovery on peer-to-peer networks
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Smart Miner: a new framework for mining large scale web usage data
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Adaptive Web SitesA Knowledge Extraction from Web Data Approach
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Adaptive Web Sites: A Knowledge Extraction from Web Data Approach
Empirical observations on the session timeout threshold
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Browser Fingerprinting from Coarse Traffic Summaries: Techniques and Implications
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Web History Tools and Revisitation Support: A Survey of Existing Approaches and Directions
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
Recommender systems: incremental clustering on web log data
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Web User Session Reconstruction with Back Button Browsing
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A framework to integrate business goals in web usage mining
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Data mining for web personalization
The adaptive web
IDEAL'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent data engineering and automated learning
An user interface adaptation architecture for rich internet applications
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WebPUM: A Web-based recommendation system to predict user future movements
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Identifying the optimal set of parameters for new topic identification through experimental design
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Association-rules-based recommender system for personalization in adaptive web-based applications
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An improved algorithm for session identification on web log
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Event correlation for process discovery from web service interaction logs
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Techniques and metrics for improving website structure
Journal of Web Engineering
Investigating the distributional property of the session workload
Journal of Web Engineering
Using graph aggregation for service interaction message correlation
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
Probability modelling of accesses to the course activities in the web-based educational system
ICCSA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computational science and Its applications - Volume Part V
Clustering-Based Learning Approach for Ant Colony Optimization Model to Simulate Web User Behavior
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A pattern restore method for restoring missing patterns in server side clickstream data
APWeb'05 Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web Technologies Research and Development
Generating dynamic higher-order markov models in web usage mining
PKDD'05 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Building content clusters based on modelling page pairs
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
Discovering better navigation sequences for the session construction problem
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Web site off-line structure reconfiguration: a web user browsing analysis
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II
Discovering characteristic individual accessing behaviors in web environment
RSFDGrC'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing - Volume Part II
ITWP'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization
Conceptual classification to improve a web site content
IDEAL'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning
On web services workflow mining
BPM'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Business Process Management
Predicting web user behavior using learning-based ant colony optimization
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
A framework for intermediated online targeted advertising with banner ranking mechanism
Information Systems and e-Business Management
A Data-Driven Approach to Measure Web Site Navigability
Journal of Management Information Systems
Access patterns for robots and humans in web archives
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
A web browsing cognitive model
KES'12 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Knowledge Engineering, Machine Learning and Lattice Computing with Applications
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Identifying user sessions from web server logs with integer programming
Intelligent Data Analysis - Business Analytics and Intelligent Optimization
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Web-usage mining has become the subject of intensive research, as its potential for personalized services, adaptive Web sites and customer profiling is recognized. However, the reliability of Web-usage mining results depends heavily on the proper preparation of the input datasets. In particular, errors in the reconstruction of sessions and incomplete tracing of users' activities in a site can easily result in invalid patterns and wrong conclusions. In this study, we evaluate the performance of heuristics employed to reconstruct sessions from the server log data. Such heuristics are called to partition activities first by user and then by visit of the user in the site, where user identification mechanisms, such as cookies, may or may not be available. We propose a set of performance measures that are sensitive to two types of reconstruction errors and appropriate for different applications in knowledge discovery (KDD) applications.We have tested our framework on the Web server data of a frame-based Web site. The first experiment concerned a specific KDD application and has shown the sensitivity of the heuristics to particularities of the site's structure and traffic. The second experiment is not bound to a specific application but rather compares the performance of the heuristics for different measures and thus for different application types. Our results show that there is no single best heuristic, but our measures help the analyst in the selection of the heuristic best suited for the application at hand.