Journal
ENTROPY
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/e20010067
Keywords
data preprocessing; information entropy; web usage mining; session identification; Reference Length
Categories
Funding
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APVV-14-0336]
- Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic (ME SR)
- Scientific Grant Agency of Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) [VEGA 1/0776/18]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The paper is focused on an examination of the use of entropy in the field of web usage mining. Entropy creates an alternative possibility of determining the ratio of auxiliary pages in the session identification using the Reference Length method. The experiment was conducted on two different web portals. The first log file was obtained from a course of virtual learning environment web portal. The second log file was received from the web portal with anonymous access. A comparison of the results of entropy estimation of the ratio of auxiliary pages and a sitemap estimation of the ratio of auxiliary pages showed that in the case of sitemap abundance, entropy could be a full-valued substitution for the estimate of the ratio of auxiliary pages.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available