A web application could be visited for different purposes. It is possible for a web site to be
visited by a regular user as a normal (natural) visit, to be viewed by crawlers, bots, spiders …

As the web keeps increasing in size, the number of vulnerable and poorly-managed
websites increases commensurately. Attackers rely on armies of malicious bots to discover …

Given the ever-increasing number of malicious bots scouring the web, many websites are
turning to specialized services that advertise their ability to detect bots and block them. In …

Presumptions of each data analysis are data themselves, regardless of the analysis focus
(visit rate analysis, optimization of portal, personalization of portal, etc.). Results of selected …

Accurate web log mining results and efficient online navigational pattern prediction are
undeniably crucial for tuning up websites and consequently helping in visitors' retention …

The accurate detection of web robot sessions from a web server log is essential to take
accurate traffic-level measurements and to protect the performance and privacy of …

Despite emerging of Web 2.0 applications and increasing requirements to well-behaved
Web robots, malicious ones can reveal irreparable risks for Web sites. Regardless of …

Web systems commonly face unique set of vulnerabilities and security threats due to their
high exposure, access by browsers, and integration with databases. This study is focused on …

Recent academic and industry reports confirm that web robots dominate the traffic seen by
web servers across the Internet. Because web robots crawl in an unregulated fashion, they …

Aspects relate to identifying Internet spiders with an approach involving a plurality of
instances of one or more URLs, which reference resources available from a first domain …