Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i28/89455
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 28, Pages: 1-9
Original Article
Dilip Singh Sisodia1 *, Shrish Verma2 and Om Prakash Vyas3
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, [email protected]
2 Department of Electronics and Telecommunication,
3 Department of Information Technology,
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Dilip Singh Sisodia
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Email: [email protected]
Background/Objectives: Proficient relational clustering of web users’ sessions not only depends on clustering algorithm’s character but also profoundly influenced by the used dissimilarity measures. Therefore, determining the right dissimilarity measure to capture the actual access behaviour of the web user is imperative for the significant clustering.Methods: In this paper, the concept of an augmented session is used to derive different augmented session dissimilarity measures. The quantitative performance evaluation of different session dissimilarity measures are performed using a relational fuzzy c-medoid clustering approach. The intra-cluster and inter-cluster distance based cluster quality ratio is used for performance evaluation. Findings: The experimental results demonstrated that augmented web user session dissimilarity in general, and intuitive augmented session dissimilarity, in particular, performed better than the other dissimilarity measures. Improvements: It is argued that augmented session similarity measures are more realistic and represent session similarities based on the web user’s habits, interest, and expectations as compared to simple binary session similarity measures.
Keywords: Augmented user Sessions, Cluster Evaluation, Dissimilarity Measures, Fuzzy Clustering, Page Relevance, Web User Sessions
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