Modeling the Internet and the Web

Modeling the Internet and the Web covers the most important aspects of modeling the Web using a modern mathematical and probabilistic treatment. It focuses on the information and application layers, as well as some of the emerging properties of the Internet. <p> Provides a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of the Internet and the Web at the information level.<br />  Takes a modern approach based on mathematical, probabilistic, and graphical modeling.<br />  Provides an integrated presentation of theory, examples, exercises and applications.<br />  Covers key topics such as text analysis, link analysis, crawling techniques, human behaviour, and commerce on the Web.</p> <p>Interdisciplinary in nature, Modeling the Internet and the Web will be of interest to students and researchers from a variety of disciplines including computer science, machine learning, engineering, statistics, economics, business, and the social sciences.</p> <p>”This book is fascinating!” – David Hand (Imperial College, UK)</p> <p>”This book provides an extremely useful introduction to the intellectually stimulating problems of data mining electronic business.” – Andreas S. Weigend (Chief Scientist, Amazon.com)<br /> </p>