{"title":"A MapReduce-Based User Identification Algorithm in Web Usage Mining","authors":"M. Srivastava, Rakhi Garg, P. K. Mishra","doi":"10.4018/IJITWE.2018040102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thisarticlecontendsthatintheboomingeraofinformation,analysingusers’navigationbehaviour isanimportanttask.Useridentificationisconsideredasoneoftheimportantandchallengingtasks inthedatapreprocessingphaseoftheWebusageminingprocess.Therearethreeimportantissues withthereactivestrategiesofUseridentificationmethodsthatneedtobefocused:thefirstisdealing ofsharing IPaddressproblem inaproxyserverenvironment, thesecond isdistinguishingusers fromWebrobots,andthethirdisdealingwithhugedatasetsefficiently.Inthisarticle,authorshave developedaMapReduce-basedUseridentificationalgorithmthatdealswiththeabovementioned threeissuesrelatedtouseridentificationmethods.Moreover,theexperimentontherealwebserver logshowstheeffectivenessandefficiencyofthedevelopedalgorithm. KEyWoRdS Data Cleaning, Data Preprocessing, Hadoop, MapReduce, User Identification, Web Server Log, Web Usage Mining","PeriodicalId":222340,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Inf. Technol. Web Eng.","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Inf. Technol. Web Eng.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJITWE.2018040102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Thisarticlecontendsthatintheboomingeraofinformation,analysingusers’navigationbehaviour isanimportanttask.Useridentificationisconsideredasoneoftheimportantandchallengingtasks inthedatapreprocessingphaseoftheWebusageminingprocess.Therearethreeimportantissues withthereactivestrategiesofUseridentificationmethodsthatneedtobefocused:thefirstisdealing ofsharing IPaddressproblem inaproxyserverenvironment, thesecond isdistinguishingusers fromWebrobots,andthethirdisdealingwithhugedatasetsefficiently.Inthisarticle,authorshave developedaMapReduce-basedUseridentificationalgorithmthatdealswiththeabovementioned threeissuesrelatedtouseridentificationmethods.Moreover,theexperimentontherealwebserver logshowstheeffectivenessandefficiencyofthedevelopedalgorithm. KEyWoRdS Data Cleaning, Data Preprocessing, Hadoop, MapReduce, User Identification, Web Server Log, Web Usage Mining