Generation and Expansion of Web Navigation from Browsing Log

The WWW (World Wide Web) is a treasure of knowledge. In order to utilize such material on the WWW effectively, we propose a method to generate a navigation script from a user's browsing log. The script generated with this method is used to guide a user through the web pages that were recorded in the browsing log. The script language is defined with XML and has sequential, selective and parallel controls. The control structure is extracted from the browsing history using the timestamps and the link information of each URL. We demonstrate an example of WWW tour generated by this system.