How does the Web look? How could we tell an abnormal social network from a normal one?
These and similar questions are important in many fields where the data can intuitively be …

Web information retrieval is significantly more challenging than traditional well-controlled,
small document collection information retrieval. One main difference between traditional …

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize
inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy …

Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you
query your own name? How do other web pages always appear at the top? What creates …

'Network'is a heavily overloaded term, so that 'network analysis' means different things to
different people. Specific forms of network analysis are used in the study of diverse …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

In complex networks, each node has some unique characteristics that define the importance
of the node based on the given application-specific context. These characteristics can be …

This paper serves as a companion or extension to the" Inside PageRank" paper by Bianchini
et al.[Bianchini et al. 03]. It is a comprehensive survey of all issues associated with …

In this paper, we describe PEGASUS, an open source peta graph mining library which
performs typical graph mining tasks such as computing the diameter of the graph, computing …

This survey reviews the research related to PageRank computing. Components of a
PageRank vector serve as authority weights for web pages independent of their textual …