The World Wide Web has evolved in less than two decades as the major source of data and information for all domains. Web has become today not only an accessible and searchable information source but also one of the most important communication channels, almost a virtual society. Web mining is a challenging activity that aims to discover new, relevant and reliable information and knowledge by in...

World Wide Web is a huge repository of web pages and links. It provides abundance information for the Internet users. The growth of web is incredible as it can be seen in present days. Users’ accesses are recorded in web logs. From the user’s perspective, it is very difficult to extract useful knowledge from the huge amount of information and secondly, it is also difficult to extract for the us...

Nowadays the Web poses itself as the largest data repository ever available in the history of humankind (Reis et al., 2004). However, the availability of huge amount of Web data does not imply that users can get whatever they want more easily. On the contrary, the massive amount of data on the Web has overwhelmed their abilities to find the desired information. It has been claimed that 99% of t...

Recently, a large amount of work has been done in web access pattern (WAP) mining. Most of the existing techniques focus on mining WAP that occur frequently from snapshot web usage data collection. However, web usage data is dynamic in real life. The dynamic nature of web usage data leads to two challenging problems. The first problem is the maintenance of existing WAP mining results. The secon...

Web Usage Mining is that area of Web Mining which deals with the extraction of interesting knowledge from logging information produced by web servers. In this paper, we present a survey of the recent developments in this area that is receiving increasing attention from the Data Mining community.

Web Usage Mining is the application of data mining techniques to large web log databases in order to extract usage patterns. However, most of the previous studies on usage patterns discovery just focus on mining intra-transaction associations, i.e., the associations among items within the same user’s transactions. A cross-transaction association rule describes the association relationships amon...

With increased rate in the usage of the World Wide Web (www) is growing both in its complexity and the volume of traffic of web site, it has become very important to analyze this web traffic and the usage of the web site by the users. Web usage mining is a main research area in web mining focused on learning about web users and their interaction with web sites. The information like server log, ...