Modeling Web Evolution

15 Pages Posted: 15 Jan 2011

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Michalis N. Vafopoulos

Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, IIT, NCSR-“Demokritos”

Efstathios Amarantidis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Ioannis Antoniou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Date Written: January 14, 2011

Abstract

The Web is the largest human information construct in history transforming our society. How can we understand, measure and model the Web evolution in order to design effective policies and optimize its social benefit? Early measurements of the Internet traffic and the Web graph indicated the scale-free structure of the Web and other Complex Networks. Going a step further Kouroupas, Koutsoupias, Papadimitriou and Sideri (KKPS) presented an economic-inspired model which explains the scale-free behavior as the interaction of Documents, Users and Search engines. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the open issues arising within the KKPS model through analysis and simulations and to highlight future research developments in Web modeling, which is the backbone of Web Science.

Keywords: Web Science, Web Economic Modeling, Scale-Free Network, KKPS Model, Complex Systems

JEL Classification: D83, D85, L86

Suggested Citation

Vafopoulos, Michalis N. and Amarantidis, Efstathios and Antoniou, Ioannis, Modeling Web Evolution (January 14, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1740603 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1740603

Michalis N. Vafopoulos (Contact Author)

Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, IIT, NCSR-“Demokritos” ( email )

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Efstathios Amarantidis

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( email )

Thessaloniki
Greece

Ioannis Antoniou

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ( email )

Thessaloniki
Greece

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