Tree based Techniques for web access patterns ? a survey

ABSTRACT Mining frequent web access patterns from web log data is one important applications of sequential pattern mining. Web access patterns are useful to anticipate user behaviour in real time. Techniques for extracting web access patterns from web log data available in two flavours: apriori based and non apriori based. In this paper we present a survey of non apriori based (compact prefix tree) techniques to generate interesting web access patterns. The aim of this paper to show the efficient tree based techniques for web access patterns along with their modifications and benefits over apriori based approaches. Keywords: web access pattern,apriori, compact prefix tre,wap-treee.