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Bot or not? a case study on bot recognition from web session logs

Alberto CabriStefano RovettaGrażyna SuchackaFrancesco Masulli

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Sequential decisionComputer sciencebusiness.industryProblem statementComputational intelligence02 engineering and technologyMachine learningcomputer.software_genreSequential decisionClassificationSession (web analytics)Task (project management)Work (electrical)020204 information systemsSequential probability ratio test0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering020201 artificial intelligence & image processingWeb usageArtificial intelligencebusinessClassification; Sequential decision; Web bot recognitioncomputerWeb bot recognition

description

This work reports on a study of web usage logs to verify whether it is possible to achieve good recognition rates in the task of distinguishing between human users and automated bots using computational intelligence techniques. Two problem statements are given, offline (for completed sessions) and on-line (for sequences of individual HTTP requests). The former is solved with several standard computational intelligence tools. For the second, a learning version of Wald’s sequential probability ratio test is used.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2018-08-18
10.1007/978-3-319-95095-2_19https://hdl.handle.net/11567/1058410