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users locate the object knowledge fleetly. Most search different categories to improve the satisfaction of
engines automatically intercept the first several customers and to maintain old customers consequently.
sentences of a document and make an abstract with We can determine which category a new visitor
fixed words, so that it has the fault of reflecting belongs to and whether he or she is potentially
information incomprehensively. Automatic abstract profitable by analyzing the records of the pages that the
formation can resolve this problem and help users get visitor browses, so that we can deal with different
the retrieved information more accurately, more customers accordingly , reduce the cost of sales,
conveniently and faster. The clustering of the retrieved increase the rate of transforming from visitors to
document set can assemble the relevant documents to buyers, and hence dig out potential customers;
keep away from those irrelevant. The processed Customers with similar browsing behaviors are
information can be offered to users in the visual grouped together and their common features are
hierarchical form of the hyperlink construction. And extracted, so that customers can be clustered, which
users can then choose their favorite clusters to reduce can help e-business enterprises to better understand
the number of Web pages to be browsed. The search customers’ interests, consuming habits and trends,
engine combined with personalized technology of Web predict customers’ needs, recommend specific
mining can get the intrinsic characters of data objects commodities to them accordingly and realize cross-
on the basis of numerous training samples and extract selling [4]. The trading volume and the rate of
information purposively according to them, so that it successful trades will be increased and the efficiency
expands the search engine’s store of key words users of distribution will be improved.
have searched by according to users’ preferences and In addition, the structure and content of the site is
consequently the retrieval results can meet users’ needs the key to customers’ interest. With the discovery of
more closely. Or it can set up users’ interest library on association rules, we can rearrange them dynamically
the analysis of the information users have browsed. In for different customers, and put together the
a word, the personalized search engine can enhance the commodities with some degree of support and trust to
recall and precision of search. promote sales; By the means of path analysis we can
identify the paths along which a category of customers
3.2. Application of Web mining to Customer visit the site frequently. These paths reflect the
Relationship Management (CRM) sequence and habits of such customers visiting pages
of the site. We can hyperlink the related documents
The core of CRM, on one hand, is to discover customers have visited in order that they can access
potential markets and customers by collecting effective their favored easily. Such a site will leave a good
data about customers and their activities; and on the impression on customers, strengthen their loyalty,
other hand, is to meet customers’ needs and to realize arouse their interest, prolong their time present on the
customers’ lifetime value by improving the customer site and increase their chance of visiting again.
service and a deep analysis of customers. CRM By Web mining, we can acquire reliable market
provides traditional enterprises with management feedback to evaluate the rate of return on
systems and technical artifices for their survival in the advertisement investment and decide whether the
network economy era. It requires enterprises to transfer online marketing mode is successful or not; According
from the "product-oriented" model to "customer- to the browsing mode of visitors interested in a certain
oriented". product, we can determine the location of the
advertisement to increase the pertinence and the rate of
3.2.1. Application of Web mining to CRM. Web return on advertisement investment and reduce
mining can help enterprises identify customers’ companies’ operating costs.
features, which enables enterprises to provide targeted
services for customers. Web mining used in CRM of e- 3.2.2. Safeguard the privacy of customers.
business has several aspects, such as the acquisition Safeguarding the privacy of customers is a basic part in
and maintenance of customers, identification of the commercial operation that can not be ignored.
value of customers, analysis of customers’ satisfaction, Therefore, as an e-business enterprise, mining an
and improvement of site structure and so on. individual customer should be avoided. Customers’
With Web mining, we can understand the dynamic privacy should be protected with both technology and
behavior of visitors and optimize the operation mode management. Technologically, we usually adopt the
of e-business websites. We can put the large number of encrypted identifier, and minimize individual customer
customers acquired into different categories and data mining. In management, many enterprises have
provide personalized services for customers from added the position of Chief Privacy Officer, who
makes an appropriate balance between the individual
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demand for privacy and the right of using private in e-business. It is the executor of the “customer-
materials in a reasonable way on the part of the oriented” ﹑“one-to-one” sales principle.
enterprise [5]. E-business enterprises manage the The personalized service recommendation system
protection of customers’ privacy as a sole main body. mainly applies the ideas and methods of data mining to
In addition, trade self-regulation is an effective way to such resources as Web server logs and Web databases
protect customers’ privacy. At present, e-business [6]. It mines the regular visiting patterns of users, puts
websites are more and more inclined to establish their them into particular categories and recommends Web
self-images in customers by way of self-regulation, so pages accordingly. And the system can adjust the
that customers can submit data free of worry. recommendation set timely to provide personalized
access for users by constantly tracing their current
3.3. Application of Web mining to the access. It is composed of five modules: data collection,
personalized service recommendation system data preprocess, data storage, offline mining and online
recommendation. The system construction model is as
It can help enterprises implement better CRM to figure 1 shows.
setup the personalized service recommendation system
Data collection module Data preprocess module Data storage module
Web
database Data cleaning
User identification User
Session identification transaction
Transaction identification library
Usage log Site files Path complement
library
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discovered rules and modes into knowledge through abnormal examples by Web mining. In addition, we
observation and selection. The useful mode that has can track the operation of enterprises by data mining
been chosen out can guide the practice of e-business. technology to evaluate the enterprise assets, analyze its
The online recommendation module sets a profitability, predict developing potential, form perfect
recommendation engine in the front of the Web server. security assurance system, implement monitor and
It generates the corresponding recommendation set, control of the whole course online, supervise of free
combining the users’ current browsing and the Web presses online, stick up for enterprise credibility,
page recommendation set the users have browsed. And strengthen the security management of Internet
then recommendation set pages are added to the newly transactions and online payment. With the credit
requested pages, which are transmitted to users’ evaluation model of data mining, we can find the data
browsers through the Web server, realizing real-time features of customers’ transactions and set up customer
personalized services. At the same time, the credit level, in order to prevent and reduce the credit
recommendation results are transmitted to the site risks effectively and enhance the level of enterprise
management centre for it to adjust the site design, credit discrimination and risk management through
optimize its structure and enhance its efficiency. mining the amount data of history transactions [7].
In a word, the personalized service recommendation
system with the data mining technology has two stages. 4. Conclusions
The first stage is studying offline. The second is the
online using of the mode. The feature capture of Hidden knowledge behind massive data can be
mining and online recommendation and the generation found by e-business-oriented Web mining, which can
of rules are processed offline. But online services are guide e-business enterprise to increase sales, improve
provided through the online recommendation engine the enterprise-customer relationship and increase the
when users access the site. The online and offline operating efficiency of the website. The development
modules are interrelated to each other. The online and application of e-business-oriented Web mining has
module offers recommendation based on the rule a good prospect and will be paid more and more
models provided by the offline module; and the offline attention to.
module generates correspondent rules with the data
accumulated online and by recommendation 5. References
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