An accepted trend is to categorize web mining into three main areas: web content mining, web structure mining and web usage mining. Web content mining involves extracting details/information from the contents of webpages and performing things like knowledge synthesis. Web structure mining involves the usage of graph theory to understand website structure/hierarchy. Web usage mining involves the...

nowadays, world wide web has become a popular medium to search information, business, trading and so on. various organizations and companies are also employing the web in order to introduce their products or services around the world. therefore e-commerce or electronic commerce is formed. e-commerce is any type of business or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information acro...

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the largest distributed information space and has grown to encompass diverse information resources. Although the web is growing exponentially, the individual’s capacity to read and digest content is essentially fixed. The full economic potential of the web will not be realized unless enabling technologies are provided to facilitate access to web resources. Currently ...

This paper has attempted to provide an up-to-date survey of the rapidly growing area of Web usage mining, which is the demand of current technology. In this paper, we present an overview of the various research areas in Web data mining and then focus on the Web usage mining tools and techniques. Web mining continues to remain as a potential research area in the present scenario. In this context...

This chapter discusses web usage mining techniques that can be applied for building adaptive hypermedia systems. These techniques are used for uncovering hidden patterns within web access data and then for building the user model that lies in the heart of each adaptive system. Web access data, traditionally stored in the server log files, constitute a rich source of data collected in a non-intr...

With the increment of users and information on the Web, mining processes inspired in the traditional data mining ones have been developed. This new recent area of investigation is called Web Mining. Within this area, we study the analysis of web log files in what is called Web Usage Mining. Different techniques of mining to discover usage patterns from web data can be applied in Web Usage Minin...

Web Usage Mining is the process of applying data mining techniques to the discovery of usage patterns from data extracted from Web Log files. In this paper, we define the notion of a “user session” as being a temporally compact sequence of web accesses by a user. We also define a new distance measure between two web sessions that captures the organization of a web site. Web usage mining consist...

The World Wide Web is an important medium for communication, data transaction and retrieving. Data mining is the process of extracting interesting patterns from a set of data sources. Web mining is the application of data mining techniques to extract useful patterns from web data. Web Mining can be divided into three categories, web usage mining, web content mining, and web structure mining. We...