Paper Title :A Fuzzy Approach for Discovery of Web Usage Patterns from Web Log Data

Author :Zahid Ansari, Mateenuddin Quazi

Article Citation :Zahid Ansari ,Mateenuddin Quazi , (2018 ) " A Fuzzy Approach for Discovery of Web Usage Patterns from Web Log Data " , International Journal of Advance Computational Engineering and Networking (IJACEN) , pp. 4-10, Volume-6, Issue-2

Abstract : Web server access logs contain substantial data about the accesses of users to a Web site. In order to reveal the information about user preferences from, Web Usage Mining (WUM) is being performed. WUM contains three main steps: preprocessing, knowledge extraction and results analysis. During the preprocessing stage, raw web log data is transformed into a set of user profiles. Each user profile captures a set of URLs representing a user session. Clustering can be applied to this sessionized data in order to capture similar interests and trends among users’ navigational patterns. Since the sessionized data may contain thousands of user sessions and each user session may consist of hundreds of URL accesses, dimensionality reduction is achieved by eliminating the low support URLs. But direct elimination of low support URLs and small sized sessions may results in loss of a significant amount of information especially when the count of low support URLs and small sessions is large. We propose a fuzzy solution to deal with this problem by assigning weights to URLs and user sessions based on a fuzzy membership function. After assigning the weights we apply a Fuzzy c-Mean Clustering algorithm to discover the clusters of user profiles. Our results show that fuzzy feature evaluation and dimensionality reduction results in better performance and validity indices for the discovered clusters. Keywords - Web usage mining; fuzzy c-means clustering, feature evaluation; dimensionality reduction.

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-6, Issue-2

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