Modeling web structure in complex website

The distinctive feature between Web pages and conventional texts is that web pages provide the hyperlink function. The Web structure modeling is the research using this feature to explore the relation between web pages. Several studies have suggested the benefit of web structure analysis in web usage mining. This research discussed how to apply Petri Nets (PN) to model the complex website structure. Result of this study showed the structure of a website can be represented by the incidence matrix of PN.