TY - GEN
T1 - Web user session reconstruction with back button browsing
AU - Dell, Robert F.
AU - Román, Pablo E.
AU - Velásquez, Juan D.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A web user session, the sequence of pages a user visits at a web site, is valuable data used in many e-business applications but privacy concerns often limit their direct retrieval. A web server log file provides an approximate way of constucting user sessions without privacy concerns. It is only approximate because the same IP address as recorded in the web log often contains the requests of several concurrent users without each user being uniquely identified. Additionally, a user's activation of the back and forward browser button is often not recorded in the web log because, in most cases, the browser retrieves the page from its own cache. We present an integer program to construct user sessions (sessionization) from web log data that includes the possible use of the back button. We present sessionization results on web log data from an academic web site and compare sessions constructed with and without the option of sessions with the back button.
AB - A web user session, the sequence of pages a user visits at a web site, is valuable data used in many e-business applications but privacy concerns often limit their direct retrieval. A web server log file provides an approximate way of constucting user sessions without privacy concerns. It is only approximate because the same IP address as recorded in the web log often contains the requests of several concurrent users without each user being uniquely identified. Additionally, a user's activation of the back and forward browser button is often not recorded in the web log because, in most cases, the browser retrieves the page from its own cache. We present an integer program to construct user sessions (sessionization) from web log data that includes the possible use of the back button. We present sessionization results on web log data from an academic web site and compare sessions constructed with and without the option of sessions with the back button.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70849116415
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04595-0_40
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04595-0_40
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70849116415
SN - 3642045944
SN - 9783642045943
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 326
EP - 332
BT - Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 13th International Conference, KES 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2009
Y2 - 28 September 2009 through 30 September 2009
ER -