Preference-function algorithm: A novel approach for selection of the users' preferred websites

Designing a website which is helpful to its users requires knowledge of the users' preferences and their motivations. Therefore, a designer requires to anticipate the users' needs and structures the website accordingly. This paper implements a novel approach for selecting the users' preferred web pages. In this approach, the navigated web pages are modelled as a finite state graph, where each visited web page is defined as a state. This graph then is used to provide the framework for determining the users' interest. The viability of this approach is demonstrated with a user-created website scenario. © 2007, Inderscience Publishers.