Journal Article

·2024

On the use of graph embedding techniques for clustering user browsing navigational behaviours

Nail Taşgetiren YTU , Talha Kılıç , Mehmet S. Aktaş YTU

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Abstract

E-commerce websites offer a multitude of features to their customers through visually appealing interfaces. A significant rise in interest in e-commerce websites has been seen since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, there is a growing need to incorporate methodologies that can help understand user navigational behaviour on such platforms. This study presents a business process software architecture, which is designed to understand user behaviour through the clustering of similar patterns. To achieve this, graph-based embedding approaches have been utilised. A prototype implementation is presented to demonstrate the proposed business process's efficiency, and the approach's technical details are discussed. Furthermore, the performance of the prototype implementation is evaluated by analysing the quality metrics for clustering. The results of this study show that the proposed business process is successful in analysing and comprehending user navigational behaviour on e-commerce websites.

Keywords

Computer science Cluster analysis Embedding Graph World Wide Web Graph embedding Information retrieval Database Theoretical computer science Artificial intelligence

Subject Areas

Geographic Information Systems Studies ·Geography, Planning and Development ·Social Sciences
Data Management and Algorithms ·Signal Processing ·Physical Sciences
Speech and dialogue systems ·Artificial Intelligence ·Physical Sciences