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arXiv2014

Web Log Data Analysis by Enhanced Fuzzy C Means Clustering

World Wide Web is a huge repository of information and there is a tremendous increase in the volume of information daily. The number of users are also increasing day by day. To reduce users browsing time lot of research is taken place. Web Usage Mining is a type of web mining in which mining techniques are applied in log data to extract the behaviour of users. Clustering plays an important role in a broad range of applications like Web analysis, CRM, marketing, medical diagnostics, computational biology, and many others. Clustering is the grouping of similar instances or objects. The key factor for clustering is some sort of measure that can determine whether two objects are similar or dissimilar . In this paper a novel clustering method to partition user sessions into accurate clusters is discussed. The accuracy and various performance measures of the proposed algorithm shows that the proposed method is a better method for web log mining.

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arXiv2010

A Survey on Preprocessing Methods for Web Usage Data

World Wide Web is a huge repository of web pages and links. It provides abundance of information for the Internet users. The growth of web is tremendous as approximately one million pages are added daily. Users' accesses are recorded in web logs. Because of the tremendous usage of web, the web log files are growing at a faster rate and the size is becoming huge. Web data mining is the application of data mining techniques in web data. Web Usage Mining applies mining techniques in log data to extract the behavior of users which is used in various applications like personalized services, adaptive web sites, customer profiling, prefetching, creating attractive web sites etc., Web usage mining consists of three phases preprocessing, pattern discovery and pattern analysis. Web log data is usually noisy and ambiguous and preprocessing is an important process before mining. For discovering patterns sessions are to be constructed efficiently. This paper reviews existing work done in the preprocessing stage. A brief overview of various data mining techniques for discovering patterns, and pattern analysis are discussed. Finally a glimpse of various applications of web usage mining is also presented.

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