Web usage mining has become the subject of exhaustive research, as its potential for Webbased personalized services, prediction of user near future intentions, adaptive Web sites, and customer profiling are recognized. Recently, a variety of recommendation systems to predict user future movements through Web usage mining have been proposed. However, the quality of recommendations in the current systems to predict user future requests in a particular Web site is below satisfaction. To effectively provide online prediction, we have developed a recommendation system called WebPUM, an action using Web usage mining system and propose a novel approach online prediction for classifying user navigation patterns to predict users' future intentions. The approach is based on the new graph partitioning algorithm to model user navigation patterns for the navigation patterns mining phase. Furthermore, longest common subsequence algorithm is used for classifying current user activities to predict user next movement. The proposed system has been tested on CTI and MSNBC datasets. The results show an improvement in the quality of recommendations. Furthermore, experiments on scalability prove that the size of dataset and the number of the users in dataset do not significantly contribute to the percentage of accuracy.

Prediction of dengue outbreak becomes crucial in Malaysia because this infectious disease remains one of the main health issues in the country. Malaysia has a good surveillance system but there have been insufficient findings on suitable model to predict future outbreaks. While there are previous studies on dengue prediction models in Malaysia, unfortunately some of these models still have constraints in finding good parameter with high accuracy. The aim of this paper is to design a more promising model for predicting dengue outbreak by using a hybrid model based on genetic algorithm for the determination of weight in neural network model. Several model architectures are designed and the parameters are adjusted to achieve optimal prediction performance. Sample data that covers dengue and rainfall data of five districts in Selangor collected from State Health Department of Selangor (SHD) and Malaysian Meteorological Department is used as a case study to evaluate the proposed model. However, due to incomplete collection of real data, a sample data with similar behavior was created for the purpose of preliminary experiment. The result shows that the hybrid model produces the better prediction compared to standalone models.

Utilizing data mining tasks such as classification on spatial data is more complex than those on non-spatial data. It is because spatial data mining algorithms have to consider not only objects of interest itself but also neighbours of the objects in order to extract useful and interesting patterns. One of classification algorithms namely the ID3 algorithm which originally designed for a non-spatial dataset has been improved by other researchers in the previous work to construct a spatial decision tree from a spatial dataset containing polygon features only. The objective of this paper is to propose a new spatial decision tree algorithm based on the ID3 algorithm for discrete features represented in points, lines and polygons. As in the ID3 algorithm that use information gain in the attribute selection, the proposed algorithm uses the spatial information gain to choose the best splitting layer from a set of explanatory layers. The new formula for spatial information gain is proposed using spatial measures for point, line and polygon features. Empirical result demonstrates that the proposed algorithm can be used to join two spatial objects in constructing spatial decision trees on small spatial dataset. The proposed algorithm has been applied to the real spatial dataset consisting of point and polygon features. The result is a spatial decision tree with 138 leaves and the accuracy is 74.72%.

In recent years, people nowadays easily to contact each other by using smartphone. Most of the smartphone now embedded with inertial sensors such accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic sensors, GPS and vision sensors. Furthermore, various researchers now dealing with this kind of sensors to recognize human activities incorporate with machine learning algorithm not only in the field of medical diagnosis, forecasting, security and for better live being as well. Activity recognition using various smartphone sensors can be considered as a one of the crucial tasks that needs to be studied. In this paper, we proposed various combination classifiers models consists of J48, Multi-layer Perceptron and Logistic Regression to capture the smoothest activity with higher frequency of the result using vote algorithm. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of recognition the six activities using ensemble approach. Publicly accelerometer dataset obtained from Wireless Sensor Data Mining (WISDM) lab has been used in this study. The result of classification was validated using 10fold cross validation algorithm in order to make sure all the experiments perform well.

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The Internet is one of the fastest growing areas of intelligence gathering. During their navigation web users leave many records of their activity. This huge amount of data can be a useful source of knowledge. Advanced mining processes are needed for this knowledge to be extracted, understood and used. Web Usage Mining (WUM) systems are specifically designed to carry out this task by analyzing the data representing usage data about a particular Web Site. WUM can model user behavior and, therefore, to forecast their future movements. Online prediction is one web usage mining application. However, the accuracy of the prediction and classification in the current architecture of predicting users' future requests systems can not still satisfy users especially in Huge Web sites. To provide online prediction efficiently, we advance an architecture for online predicting in Web Usage Mining system and propose a novel approach based on LCS algorithm for classifying user navigation patterns for predicting users' future requests. The Excremental results show that the approach can improve accuracy of classification in the architecture.

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