Meaningless to meaningful web log data for generation of web pre-caching decision rules using rough set

Abstract

Web caching and pre-fetching are vital technologies that can increase the speed of Web loading processes. Since speed and memory are crucial aspects in enhancing the performance of mobile applications and websites, a better technique for Web loading process should be investigated. The weaknesses of the conventional Web caching policy include meaningless information and uncertainty of knowledge representation in Web logs data from the proxy cache to mobile-client. The organisation and learning task of the knowledge-processing for Web logs data require explicit representation to deal with uncertainties. This is due to the exponential growth of rules for finding a suitable knowledge representation from the proxy cache to the mobileclient. Consequently, Rough Set is chosen in this research to generate Web pre-caching decision rules to ensure the meaningless Web log data can be changed to meaningful information.