Title :
Clustering Web Surfers with Probabilistic Models in a Real Application
Author :
Liu, Yang ; Huang, Xiangji ; An, Aijun ; Promhouse, Gary
Author_Institution :
York University, Toronto, Canada
Abstract :
The problem of modeling and predicting a Web surfer´s browsing patterns has gained increasing attention in recent years. In this paper we present our experience in clustering Web surfers using a mixture of Markov models with a real application of Livelink log data. We propose different techniques to improve the clustering performance, and evaluate the techniques through experiments.
Keywords :
Clustering algorithms; Clustering methods; Hidden Markov models; Internet; Navigation; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Time measurement; Uniform resource locators; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence, 2004. WI 2004. Proceedings. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2100-2
DOI :
10.1109/WI.2004.10005