Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
SpeedTracer: a Web usage mining and analysis tool
IBM Systems Journal
Adaptive Web sites: automatically synthesizing Web pages
AAAI '98/IAAI '98 Proceedings of the fifteenth national/tenth conference on Artificial intelligence/Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
Web site usability: a designer's guide
Web site usability: a designer's guide
Compression algorithms for real programmers
Compression algorithms for real programmers
Mining navigation history for recommendation
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Automatic personalization based on Web usage mining
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Internet Computing
ICDE '95 Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Data Engineering
Clustering the Users of Large Web Sites into Communities
ICML '00 Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning
PagePrompter: An Intelligent Web Agent Created Using Data Mining Techniques
TSCTC '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing
From run-time behavior to usage scenarios: an interaction-pattern mining approach
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Industry: predicting telecommunication equipment failures from sequences of network alarms
Handbook of data mining and knowledge discovery
Web usage mining: discovery and applications of usage patterns from Web data
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Web Mining: Information and Pattern Discovery on the World Wide Web
ICTAI '97 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
The web from a complex adaptive systems perspective
Journal of Computer and System Sciences
A three-level approach for analyzing user behavior in ongoing relationships
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
Mining Web navigation patterns with a path traversal graph
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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The number of Web users and the diversity of their interests increase continuously; Web-content providers seek to infer these interests and to adapt their Web sites to improve accessibility of the offered content. Usage-pattern mining is a promising approach in support of this goal. Assuming that past navigation behavior is an indicator of the users' interests, then, Web-server logs can be mined to infer what the users are interested in. On that basis, the Web site may be reorganized to make the interesting content more easily accessible or recommendations can be dynamically generated to help new visitors find information of interest faster. In this paper, we discuss a case study examining the effectiveness of sequential-pattern mining for understanding the users' navigation behavior in focused Web sites. This study examines the Web site of an undergraduate course, as an example of a focused Web site that offers information intriusically related to a process and closely reflects the workflow of this underlying process. We found that in such focused sites, indeed, visitor behavior reflects the process supported by the Web site and that sequential-pattern mining can effectively predict Web-usage behavior in these sites.