Website plays a significant role in success of an e-business. It is the main start point of any organization and corporation for its customers, so it's important to customize and design it according to the online behavior of web site visitors. In this paper, we will introduce web mining, as a new field of research in data mining and knowledge discovery, and will focus on web usage mining to ext...

Web usage mining is an application of data mining technology to mine the data of the web server log file. It can discover the browsing patterns of user and some kind of correlations between the web pages. Web usage mining provides the support for the web site design, providing personalization server and other business making decision, etc. Web mining applies the data mining, the artificial inte...

With the explosive growth of information on the Web, it has become more difficult to access relevant information from the Web. One possible approach to solve this problem is web personalization. In Semantic Web, user access behavior models can be shared as ontology. Agent software can then utilize it to provide personalized services such as recommendation and search. To achieve this, we need to...

Web usage mining applies data mining techniques to records of Web site visits. To better understand patterns of usage, analysis should take the semantics of visited URLs into account. This paper presents a framework for enhancing Web usage records with formal semantics based on an ontology underlying the site. Besides, it elicits automated methods of mapping URLs to application events. Using th...