Title :
A New Web Usage Mining and Visualization Tool
Author :
Labroche, Nicolas ; Lesot, Marie-Jeanne ; Yaffi, Lionel
Author_Institution :
Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Paris
Abstract :
This paper introduces a new tool for web usage mining and visualization that relies on the bio-mimetic relational clustering algorithm Leader Ant and the definition of prototypes based on typicality computation to produce an efficient visualization of the activity of users on a website. The tool is evaluated on a real web log file from the French museum of Bourges website and shows that it can easily produce meaningful visualizations of typical user navigation.
Keywords :
Web sites; data mining; French museum of Bourges Website; Web log file; Web usage mining; biomimetic relational clustering algorithm; users activity visualization; Artificial intelligence; Clustering methods; Data mining; Data visualization; Information filtering; Information filters; Navigation; Prototypes; Tree graphs; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2007. ICTAI 2007. 19th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Patras
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3015-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICTAI.2007.102