Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2003, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (4): 357-361.

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A Web Site Navigation Based on Ant Colony Algorithm

YE Ning1,2, LIANG Zuo-peng1, DONG Yi-sheng1   

  1. 1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;
    2. Department of Computer, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
  • Received:2002-09-22 Revised:2002-12-27 Online:2003-12-10 Published:2003-12-10

Abstract: A web site navigation algorithm based on the ant colony algorithm is proposed in this paper, First the algorithm is trained against the previous web log. As a result, a directed graph is obtained with each vertex containing a set of users' navigation rules and each edge containing the linking probability between adjacent pages. Next we forecast users' navigation according to the directed graph. Finally, the recommended pages based on the predicted navigation can be obtained. The experiment result was satisfactory.

Key words: Web navigation, Web log, ant colony algorithm, data mining

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