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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - Internet Technologies & Systems 99

Mining Longest Repeating Subsequences to Predict World Wide Web Surfing

James Pitkow and Peter Pirolli, Xerox PARC

Abstract

Modeling and predicting user surfing paths involves tradeoffs between model complexity and predictive accuracy. In this paper we explore predictive modeling techniques that attempt to reduce model complexity while retaining predictive accuracy. We show that compared to various Markov models, longest repeating subsequence models are able to significantly reduce model size while retaining the ability to make accurate predictions. In addition, sharp increases in the overall predictive capabilities of these models are achievable by modest increases to the number of predictions made.
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