Web usage mining-current trends and future challenges

Web collaborate the huge amount of information logged about user accesses. Mining this information to gain deep insights into the Web site, its usage, and user visiting pattern is known as web data mining. In this paper the concept of data mining is summarized specifying about data type generalization and comparing various mining algorithms based on application and type of data. It discuss about Web Mining and its various categories like web content, web structure and web usage based upon the area to be mined on the internet. It also exposes comparison between pattern discovery techniques based upon various parameters and finally focusing on scope of web usage mining which will be helpful in providing web services to user.