Web Mining Technique for Collaborative Web Surfing

Abstract

Web mining is an application of a data mining technique which is used for knowledge discovery. In this paper, web mining techniques have been studied for the collaborative Web surfing, where more than one surfer are searching for the identical data from the world’s largest database i.e. WWW. On the WWW the data is placed in an unstructured way. Therefore finding relevant information is always time consuming and a tiring job. We propose data mining technique using pattern matching method for collaborative web surfing.

Keywords: data mining; collaborative web surfing; web mining; HITS; knowledge discovery technique