Identifying web sessions with simulated annealing

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Highlights：

• The Internet has become a flourishing source of data for different research fields.

• The sessionization problem addresses the reconstruction of the user sessions.

• It is necessary to restructure web sites to improve access to the preferred contents.

• An approach based on simulated annealing for the sessionization problem is presented.

• The processing time is reduced 166 times compared to an integer programming approach.

摘要

•The Internet has become a flourishing source of data for different research fields.•The sessionization problem addresses the reconstruction of the user sessions.•It is necessary to restructure web sites to improve access to the preferred contents.•An approach based on simulated annealing for the sessionization problem is presented.•The processing time is reduced 166 times compared to an integer programming approach.

论文关键词：Web usage mining,Web session,Simulated annealing

论文评审过程：Available online 7 September 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.056