%0 Journal Article
%T The Best Trail Algorithm for Assisted Navigation of Web Sites
%A Richard Wheeldon
%A Mark Levene
%J Computer Science
%D 2003
%I arXiv
%X We present an algorithm called the Best Trail Algorithm, which helps solve the hypertext navigation problem by automating the construction of memex-like trails through the corpus. The algorithm performs a probabilistic best-first expansion of a set of navigation trees to find relevant and compact trails. We describe the implementation of the algorithm, scoring methods for trails, filtering algorithms and a new metric called \emph{potential gain} which measures the potential of a page for future navigation opportunities.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0306122v1