Mining users` navigation patterns for building web pages recommendation system

Due to the quick growth of the World Wide Web, retrieval of useful informationfrom the Internet for a particular web user or a group of users becomes verydifficult. Recommendation systems using web usage mining help providing anadaptive web environment for the web users. This paper presents a novel approachfor page recommendation using fuzzy association rule mining algorithm. Thismethod extracts previous users` access patterns and then employs them torecommend appropriate web pages for the active user. An illustrative exampleexplains this method in details.

Keywords:

Web recommender , Web usage mining , Fuzzy association rule mining , Pattern discovery