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Clustering of Web Sessions Using Levenshtein Metric

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Advances in Data Mining (ICDM 2004)

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Various commercial and scientific applications require analysis of user behaviour in the Internet. For example, web marketing or network technical support can benefit from web users classification. This is achievable by tracking pages visited by the user during one session (one visit to the particular site). For automated user sessions classification we propose distance that compares sessions judging by the sequence of pages in them and by categories of these pages. Proposed distance is based on Levenshtein metric. Fuzzy C Medoids algorithm was used for clustering, since it has almost linear complexity. Davies-Bouldin, Entropy, and Bezdek validity indices were used to assess the qualities of proposed method. As testing shows, our distance outperforms in this domain both Euclidian and Edit distances.

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  1. RAS, Institute for System Programming, 109004, Moscow, Russia, B. Kommunisticheskaya, 25

    Andrei Scherbina & Sergey Kuznetsov

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  1. Institute of Computer Vision and applied Computer Sciences, IBaI, Germany

    Petra Perner

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Scherbina, A., Kuznetsov, S. (2004). Clustering of Web Sessions Using Levenshtein Metric. In: Perner, P. (eds) Advances in Data Mining. ICDM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30185-1_14

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