Web mining aims to discover useful information or knowledge from the Web hyperlink structure, page content and usage log. Based on the primary kind of data used in the mining process, Web mining tasks are categorized into three main types:
Web structure mining,
Web content mining and
Web usage mining. The goal of this book is to present these tasks, and their essential algorithms. It is written for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers and development professionals in the field. No prior knowledge of data mining or statistics is assumed. In fact, the book covers the essential topics of data mining as well.
