World Wide Web is growing at a tremendous rate in terms of the number of visitors and number of web pages. Search engine crawlers are highly automated programs that periodically visit the web and index web pages. The behavior of search engines could be used in analyzing server load, quality of...

Nowadays, using data mining techniques to extract knowledge from web log files has became a necessity. The behavior of Internet users can be found in the log files stored on Internet servers. Analyzing data obtained from web server logs is rapidly becoming one of the most important activities...

Mining web access patterns consists in extracting knowledge from server log files. This problem is represented as a sequential pattern mining problem (SPM) which allows to extract patterns which are sequences of accesses that occur frequently in the web log file. There are in the literature many...