Improved Data Preparation Technique in Web Usage Mining
International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security · 2013
The process to discover and extract useful information is web usage mining.It helps to better understand and achieve the needs of web-based applications.To enhance the efficiency and to ease of the mining process, the data should be preprocessed.The proper study and analysis of web log file is useful to manage the websites effectively for administrative and user's perspective.Many a time the backward referencing used to track the reachability of the pages which consumes time and generates complete path from the root node even if the link has come from some other server page.This problem can be using two-way hash table structure as Access History List.In our system, session identification is done using AHL by considering immediate link analysis, backward referencing without searching the whole tree representing the server pages.Based on this study, it can be concluded that the system is complex but user session sequences are generated with less time and greater precision.