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....filtering which essentially clusters users, techniques that rely on sequential patterns contain more precise information about users navigational behavior. Techniques that fall into this class include methods that rely on statistical models such as Markov models and sequential pattern mining [17, 8, 14, 18, 21]. These techniques have been well studied and it has been observed that while they are quite effective in making accurate predictions, the coverage of these approaches is not up to the mark[12] Furthermore, these approaches also suffer from the problem that the number of rules generated by such ....

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....in this paper as well. The other two criteria are used in a postprocessing step, on the set of discovered rules, and can be applied to any prefetching scheme, thus they are orthogonal issues to the subject examined in this paper. Finally, two variations of the PPM prefetcher are described in [35] [36]. The first one is a subset of the PPM, whereas in the second one, the selection of prefetching rules to activate is determined by weights assigned on them. 4ACOMMON CONTEXT FOR PREDICTIVE WEB PREFETCHING 4.1 Markov Predictors If S is a sequence of accesses (called a transaction) made ....

R. Sarukkai, "Link Prediction and Path Analysis Using Markov Chains," Computer Networks, vol. 33, nos. 1-6, pp. 377-386, June 2000.

....Prediction, Web Log Mining, Web Caching, Prefetching, Association rules. 1 Introduction The problem of modelling and predicting a user s accesses on a Web site has attracted a lot of research interest. It has been used [20] to improve the Web performance through caching [2, 12] and prefetching [34, 22, 35, 29, 39, 40], recommend related pages [19, 38] improve search engines [11] and personalize browsing in a Web site [39] Nowadays, the improvement of Web performance is a very significant requirement. Since the Web s popularity resulted in heavy traffic in the Internet, the net effect of this growth was a ....

....based on three pruning criteria. These criteria are used in a post processing step, on the set of discovered rules, and can be applied to any prefetching scheme, thus they are orthogonal issues to the subject examined in this paper. Finally, two variations of the PPM prefetcher are described in [39, 40]. The first one is a subset of the PPM whereas in the second one the selection of prefetching rules to activate is determined by weights assigned on them. Web caching has received significant attention and several new algorithms were proposed, ranging from extensions to traditional policies ....

R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains. Computer Networks, 33(1-6):377-386, 2000.

....retrieval measures of page similarity and guiding queries have been quite successful at predicting navigation patterns. WebWatcher [15] and adaptive web site agents [23] use machine learning to predict the next link a user will follow a simplified version of the shortcut problem. Sarukkai [28] uses a Markov model of web usage to suggest the most probable links a visitor may follow, and notes the need to reduce the size of the model by clustering the URLs. Space precludes discussion of all related work on sequence prediction and web usage mining. The goal of the WebKB project [5] is to ....

R. R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains. In Proceedings of the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, 2000.

....distinct training and test sets. The algorithm attempts to determine the appropriate concept by learning from the training set. The model is then used statically on the test set to evaluate its performance. This approach is used in a number of Web prediction papers (e.g. ZAN99, AZN99, NZA98, Sar00, SYLZ00, YZL01, ZY01] While we can certainly do the same (and will do so in one case for comparison) our normal approach will be to apply the predictive algorithms incrementally, in which each action serves to update the current user model and assist in making a prediction for the next action. ....

....and large changes in parameter values, and to find useful settings of those parameters for the tested data sets. 4.5. 1 Increasing number of predictions In order to help validate our prediction codes, we replicated (to the extent possible) Sarukkai s HTTP server request prediction experiment [Sar00] This experiment used the EPA HTTP data set, in which the first 40,000 requests were used as training data, and the remainder for testing. We set up our tests identically, and configured our prediction codes to use a first order Markov model (i.e. an n gram size of 2, with no minimum support ....

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Ramesh R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains. In Proceedings of the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam, May 2000.

....frequency. Each sub string of length n is an n gram. The algorithm scans through all sub strings exactly once, recording occurrence frequencies of the next click immediately after the sub string in all sessions. The maximum occurred request is used as the prediction for the sub string. In [28], the authors proposed to use Markov chains to dynamically model the URL access patterns that are observed in navigation logs based on the previous state. Markov chain model can be defined by the tuple S, A, P where A corresponds to the state space; A is the matrix representing transition ....

.... of the session [19] If (Time Starting Time of the Session) 30 [20] Close the open session [21] Create a new open session and load all data to the new session [22] End If [23] Else [24] Add Target into List Page of the session [25] num of pages ; 26] End Else [27] End If [28] Else [29] Close the open session [30] Create a new open session and load all data to the new session [31] End Else [32] End For [33] End If [34] End For Figure 3.8: Algorithm used for session identification Each node in the list generally consists of four fields which are the ....

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R. R. Sarukkai. Link Prediction and Path Analysis Using Markov Chains. In the 9 International WWW Conference, 2000.

....transitions, making use of clickstreams and possibly static auxiliary data only. Connection to prior work. Several authors have addressed (parts of) the web usage mining problem considered in this paper. The use of Markov models for modelling navigational patterns has been studied in [7, 10]. In this work, each web page or page request corresponds to one state in a Markov model. In [10] 2 6 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 10 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fig. 4. a. left) Learned 12 state transition matrix A ; the shu ing of page ids is such that 1 3 are the shop category, 4 9 is ....

....to prior work. Several authors have addressed (parts of) the web usage mining problem considered in this paper. The use of Markov models for modelling navigational patterns has been studied in [7, 10] In this work, each web page or page request corresponds to one state in a Markov model. In [10] 2 6 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 10 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fig. 4. a. left) Learned 12 state transition matrix A ; the shu ing of page ids is such that 1 3 are the shop category, 4 9 is the general category and 10 12 is the tools category; b. right) learned 6 state transition ....

R. R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using markov chains. In Proceedings of the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam, 2000.

....The learning and interest tracking module has been thoroughly tested and integrated into a streaming media server (MediaMiner) and a media player client (VideoChargerPlus) product prototype. While HMMs have been used before for modeling and predicting different kinds of web browsing behavior[7, 9, 1], and for plan recognition[8, 4, 3, 5, 2] the use of HMM to predict the interestingness of video fi om deciphering the interest level of users is novel. Also, our approach uses supervised learning to automatically initialize HMM parameters unlike other manual approaches. Any application can thus ....

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....the next request that an individual user is likely to make on the WWW. Therefore, this paper examines the value of using Web page content to make predictions for what will be requested next. Many researchers have considered complex models for history based predictions for pre loading (e.g. [47, 55]) but relatively few have considered using anything other than simplistic approaches to the use of Web page content. Unlike many techniques that do examine content, our approach does not noticeably interfere with the user experience at all it does not ask for a statement of interest, nor does ....

....caches contain objects that have been accessed in the past. Prefetching [47, 44] however, can be used to speculatively put content into the cache in advance of an actual request. One difficulty, however, is in knowing what to prefetch. Typical approaches have used Markovian techniques (e.g. [28, 55]) on the history of Web page references to recognize patterns of activity. Others prefetch bookmarked pages and oftenrequested objects (e.g. 50] Still others prefetch links from the currently requested page [46, 13, 10, 57, 38, 42, 37, 51, 26, 34] However, prefetching all of the links of the ....

R. R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains. In Proceedings of the Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam, May 2000.

....for clients to initiate prefetching. Foygel and Strelow consider a hierarchical structure for prefetching in proxy [9] Using the first order of Markov models and speculations based on statistical information of servers, other researchers have developed prefetching methods (see e.g. 3] 14] [17], and [16] Researchers have also proposed hint based web clients and servers that can load store the predicted data objects for future use. see e.g. 6] and [12] 7 Conclusion In this study, we have investigated the issues of coordinations between proxy based prefetching and server based ....

R. R. Sarukkai, " Link Prediction and Path Analysis Using Markov Chains", Proceedings of the 9th International World Wide Web Conference, 2000.

....based on a sequence of previous URLs requested by the user. When these different models agree with each other, the system makes the prediction. Their result shows that the accuracy is improved from 53 of point based model to 76 in the best cases, and from 40 to 45 in the worst cases. Sarukkai [46] also studied path based model and probabilistic link prediction. His result showed a 5 accuracy improvement of path based model over point based model. In 2000, Su et al. 51] proposed N gram prediction model based on largescale web log studies. They predict a user s next m requests by ....

R. R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using markov chains. In Computer Networks, pages 1--6, June, 2000.

....and presentation by learning from visitor access patterns. In the spirit of this challenge, many research projects have been proposed and implemented [Perkowitz and Etzioni, 2000; Fink et al. 1996; Yan et al. 1996; J uhne et al. 1998; Joachims et al. 1997; Pazzani and Billsus, 1999; Sarukkai, 2000] Many of these projects, like much of the Web today, assume the visitor is browsing with a large color display and fast network connection. In addition, these works typically assume that a visitor s interest in a site lies in viewing many pages of content, as opposed to a specific destination. ....

....to our own work, WebCANVAS [Cadez et al. 2000] is a system for visualizing clusters of web visitors using a mixture of Markov models. We apply similar models to web behavior, although our goal is to build predictive structures, while WebCANVAS emphasizes visualizing the clusters themselves. Sarukkai [2000] uses a Markov model of web usage to suggest the most probable links a visitor may follow, and notes the need to reduce the size of the model by clustering the URLs. Our work explores this model as well as many others, and uses the expected savings of a link, not just the link probability, to sort ....

R. R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains. In Proc. 9th Intl. WWW Conf., 2000.

....teaching strategies for a tutoring system. Varing from this related research, the purpose of our study on user behavior is to capture students access activities to a web based tutor. Additionally, none of the past related work uses Hidden Markov Model to drive the prediction process. Sarukkai, [12], used Markov chains to model web link sequences, but did not consider individual user behavior. Our goal in this project is to use an hidden Markov model approach to model students behavior using the webbased educational system MANIC , to understand how students interact with this online ....

Ramesh R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains. COMP-NET-AMSTERDAM, 33(1-- 6):377--386, June 2000.

....Web Log Mining, Prefetching, Association Rules, Data Mining. 1 Introduction The problem of modeling and predicting a user s accesses on a web site has attracted a lot of research interest. It has been used [18] to improve the web performance through caching [5, 12, 36] and prefetching [31, 20, 32, 25, 34, 35], recommend related pages [17, 33] improve search engines [9] and personalize the browsing in a web site [34] The core issue in prediction is the development of an e#ective algorithm that deduces the future user # Contact author. email: manolopo csd.auth.gr, tel: 3031 996363, fax: 3031998419 ....

....and in this paper as well. The other two criteria are used in a post processing step, on the set of discovered rules, and can be applied to any prefetching scheme, thus they are orthogonal issues to the subject examined in this paper. Finally, two variations of the PPM prefetcher are described in [34, 35]. The first one is a subset of the PPM whereas in the second one the selection of prefetching rules to activate is determined by weights assigned on them. 2.1 Motivation Most of the existing web prefetching schemes di#er from the corresponding ones proposed in the context of file systems only ....

R. Sarukkai: "Link Prediction and Path Analysis Using Markov Chains", Computer Networks Vol. 33, No. 1--6, pp. 377--386, Jun. 2000.

....used to model and predict the web page that the user will most likely access next. Padbanabham and Mogul [PM96] use N hop Markov models for improving pre fetching strategies for web caches. Pitkow et al. PP99] proposed a longest subsequence models as an alternative to the Markov model. Sarukkai [Sar00] use Markov models for predicting the next page accessed by the user. Cadez et al. CHM 00] use Markov models for classifying browsing sessions into different categories. In many applications, first order Markov models are not very accurate in predicting the user s browsing behavior, since ....

Ramesh R. Sarukkai. Link prediction and path analysis using markov chains. In Ninth International World Wide Web Conference, 2000.

....between the current rule set and its corresponding maximal set obtained by the BFS algorithm. We note that the HPG model corresponds to a kth order Markov model, see [2] Recently, several authors have also been proposing the use of Markov models to the study of users web navigation behaviour. In [16] the author proposed a system which is used to demonstrate the utility of Markov chain models in link prediction and path analysis on the web. Experimental results are reported which show that a Markov model can be useful both in the prediction of http requests and in the prediction of the next ....

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