Handling Tabbing and Backward References for Predictive Web Usage Mining.

Regarding the number of functionalities offered by current web browsers, two particular functionalities are critical when modeling user's behavior: the back button and tabs. As usual logs do not contain explicit information about the actions performed with these functionalities, it is a real challenge to retrieve which actions were performed by users and it is becoming a very difficult task to accurately model users' behavior on the web. In this paper, we propose a strategy that uses radicals to take into account tabs as well as the back-button in web predictive modeling.