Web usage mining: How to eficiently manage new transactions and new clients

Abstract

With the growing popularity of the World Wide Web (Web), large volumes of data such as user address or URL requested are gathered automatically by Web servers and collected in access log files. Recently, many interesting works have been published in the Web Usage Mining context. Nevertheless, the large amount of input data poses a maintenance problem. In fact, maintaining global patterns is a non-trivial task after access log file update because new data may invalidate old client behavior and creates new ones.