Investigating the PageRank and sequence prediction based approaches for next page prediction

Discovering unseen patterns from web clickstream is an upcoming research area. One of the meaningful approaches for making predictions is using sequence prediction that is typically the improved compact prediction tree (CPT+). However, to increase this method's effectiveness, combining it with at least other methods is necessary. This work investigates such PageRank-based methods related to sequence prediction as All-K-Markov, DG, Markov 1st, CPT, CPT+. The experimental results proved that the integration of CPT+ and PageRank is the right solution for next page prediction in terms of accuracy, which is more than a standard method of approximately 0.0621%. Still, the size of the newly created sequence database is reduced up to 35%. Furthermore, our proposed solution has an accuracy that is much higher than other ones. It is intriguing for the next phase (testing one) to make the next page prediction in terms of time performance

Effective Ranking and Recommendation on Web Page Retrieval by Integrating Association Mining and PageRank

Nowadays, the well-known search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc, have provided the users with good search results based on special search strategies. However there still exist some problems unsolved for traditional search engines, including: 1) the gap between user’s intention and searched results is not easy to narrow down under the global search space, and 2) user’s interested pages hidden in the local website are not associated with the search results. To deal with such problems, in this paper, we propose a novel approach for personalized page ranking and recommendation by integrating association mining and PageRank so as to meet user’s search goals. Moreover, by mining the users ’ browsing behaviors, we can successfully bridge the gap between global search results and local preferences. The effectiveness of our proposed approach was verified through experimental evaluations