Optimized proxy based web caching system using MART1

Abstract

Internet technology has provided a lot of services for sharing and distributing information across the world Among all the services World Wide Web plays a significant role Due to the increasing Internet users from time to time vast amount of data related to the user activities are recorded in a file called Web log file that keeps track of information such as newlinewho what and when accessed in a Website Usually the data present in the log files are huge and contains raw information which are impossible for the analyst to analyze and extract potential information out of it Data mining is one of the methods that assist in knowledge discovery process Various data mining techniques namely classification clustering and association rule mining aid in knowledge discovery from Web usage data Web mining is an application of data mining over Web based applications in order to extract useful information out of it Web Usage Mining is also known as Web log mining that uses Web log file as data source to extract some information and apply this information to enhance the performance of Web based systems newline