Multiobjective evolutionary clustering of Web user sessions: a case study in Web page recommendation


Demir G. N., Uyar A. Ş., GUNDUZ-OGUDUCU S.

SOFT COMPUTING, cilt.14, sa.6, ss.579-597, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2010
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s00500-009-0428-y
  • Dergi Adı: SOFT COMPUTING
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.579-597
  • İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, we experiment with several multiobjective evolutionary algorithms to determine a suitable approach for clustering Web user sessions, which consist of sequences of Web pages visited by the users. Our experimental results show that the multiobjective evolutionary algorithm-based approaches are successful for sequence clustering. We look at a commonly used cluster validity index to verify our findings. The results for this index indicate that the clustering solutions are of high quality. As a case study, the obtained clusters are then used in a Web recommender system for representing usage patterns. As a result of the experiments, we see that these approaches can successfully be applied for generating clustering solutions that lead to a high recommendation accuracy in the recommender model we used in this paper.