Link Based Session Reconstruction: Finding All Maximal Paths

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel link-based method for session reconstruction that effectively finds all maximal paths, improving web usage mining tasks like next-page prediction.

Contribution

It introduces a new link-based approach for session reconstruction that outperforms previous methods in accuracy and efficiency.

Findings

Outperforms previous session reconstruction methods

Enhances accuracy in next-page prediction

Demonstrates efficiency through experimental results

Abstract

This paper introduces a new method for the session construction problem, which is the first main step of the web usage mining process. Through experiments, it is shown that when our new technique is used, it outperforms previous approaches in web usage mining applications such as next-page prediction.