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| Designing and Mining Web Applications: A Conceptual Modeling Approach. Idea Group 2007 :. |
| In this Chapter we present the usage of a modeling language,
WebML, for the design and the management of dynamic Web
applications. WebML supports Web application design. It also
enables an easier analysis of the usage of the application
contents by the users, even if WebML-based applications are
dynamic. The reason is that many features of the structure of
data requested by users are made available in some rich logs,
called conceptual logs, generated by the application runtime
engine.
In this Chapter we want to report on a case study about the
analysis of the conceptual logs, for testifying to the
effectiveness of the WebML framework (and in general of
conceptual modeling methods) for the design and management of
Web applications. The methodology adopted for Web log analysis
was based on the data mining paradigm of itemsets and frequent
patterns, and made full use of constraints on the data features
stored in the conceptual logs. We were therefore able to obtain
many interesting patterns for the management of the analyzed
application, such as recurrent navigation paths, most frequently
visited page contents, and anomalies. |
| R. Meo, M. Matera. Designing and Mining Web Applications: A Conceptual Modeling Approach. In: A. Vakali , G. Pallis (eds), Web Data Management Practices: Emerging Techniques and Technologies, Idea Group, 2007, ISBN: 1-59904-228-2. |
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