Title :
A new clustering approach based on graph partitioning for navigation patterns mining
Author :
Jalali, Mehrdad ; Mustapha, Norwati ; Mamat, Ali ; Sulaiman, Md Nasir B
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Putra Univ. of Malaysia
Abstract :
We present a study of the Web based user navigation patterns mining and propose a novel approach for clustering of user navigation patterns. The approach is based on the graph partitioning for modeling user navigation patterns. For the clustering of user navigation patterns we create an undirected graph based on connectivity between each pair of Web pages and we propose novel formula for assigning weights to edges in such a graph. The experimental results represent that the approach can improve the quality of clustering for user navigation pattern in Web usage mining systems. These results can be use for predicting userpsilas next request in the huge Web sites.
Keywords :
Web sites; data mining; graph theory; pattern clustering; Web based user navigation patterns; Web pages; Web sites; Web usage mining systems; clustering approach; graph partitioning; navigation patterns mining; Clustering algorithms; Clustering methods; Computer science; Data mining; Information analysis; Navigation; Partitioning algorithms; Software engineering; Web pages; Weight measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 2008. ICPR 2008. 19th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tampa, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2174-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1051-4651
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761808