On business activity modeling using grammars

Authors:
Savitha Srinivasan;Arnon Amir;Prasad Deshpande;Vladimir Zbarsky
Affiliations:
IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
Venue:
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Web based applications offer a mainstream channel for businesses to manage their activities. We model such business activity in a grammar-based framework. The Backus Naur form notation is used to represent the syntax of a regular grammar corresponding to Web log patterns of interest. Then, a deterministic finite state machine is used to parse Web logs against the grammar. Detected tasks are associated with metadata such as time taken to perform the activity, and aggregated along relevant corporate dimensions.