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Web Dynamics : Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use /

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The World Wide Web has become a ubiquitous tool for finding information, performing distributed computation, and conducting business, learning and science. In order to fully exploit its huge potential as a global information repository, we need to understand the dynamics of the Web. Levene and Poulo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levene, Mark
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Poulovassilis, A. (Alexandra)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
Subjects:
Computer science.
Database management.
Information storage and retrieval systems.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Evolution of Web Structure and Content: How Large is the World Wide Web (Dobra, Fienberg); Methods for Mining Web Communities (Flake, Tsioutsiouliklis, Zhukov); Theory of Random Networks (Mendes); Web Dynamics, Structure, and Page Quality (Baeza-Yates, Castillo, Saint-Jean)
  • Part 2: Web Information Retrieval: Navigating the World Wide Web (Levene, Wheeldon); Crawling the Web (Pant, Srinivasan, Menczer); Combining Link and Content Information in Web Search (Richardson, Domingos); Search Engine Ability to Cope with the Changing Web (Bar-Ilan)
  • Part 3: Handling Events and Change on the Web: An Event-Condition-Action Language for XML (Bailey, Papamarkos, Poulovassilis, Wood); Active XQuery (Bonifati, Paraboschi); Active XML: A Data-Centric Perspective on Web Services (Abiteboul, Benjelloun, Manolescu, Milo, Weber); WebVigiL - An Approach to Just-In-Time Information Propagation in Large Network-Centric Environments (Jacob, Sanka, Pandrangi, Chakravarthy); DREAM: Distributed Reliable Event-Based Application Management (Buchmann, Bornhövd, Cilia, Fiege, Gärtner, Liebig, Meixner, Mühl)
  • Part 4: Personalised Access to the Web: A Survey of Architectures for Adaptive Hypermedia (Cannataro, Pugliese); Adaptive Web-Based Educational Hypermedia (De Bra, Aroyo, Cristea); MP3 - Mobile Portals, Profiles, and Personalization (Smyth, Cotter); Learning Web Request Patterns (Davison).