Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use (Hardcover, 2004)

Web Dynamics - Setting the Scene.- I Evolution of Web Structure and Content; Introduction.- How Large Is the World Wide Web?.- Methods for Mining Web Communities: Bibliometric, Spectral, and Flow.- Theory of Random Networks and Their Role in Communications Networks.- Web Dynamics, Structure, and Page Quality.- II Searching and Navigating the Web; Introduction.- Navigating the World Wide Web.- Crawling the Web.- Combining Link and Content Information in Web Search.- Search Engine Ability to Cope With the Changing Web.- III Events and Change on the Web; Introduction.- An Event-Condition-Action Language for XML.- Active XQuery.- Active XML: A Data-Centric Perspective on Web Services.- WebVigiL: An Approach to Just-In-Time Information Propagation in Large Network-Centric Environments.- DREAM: Distributed Reliable Event-Based Application Management.- IV Personalized Access to the Web; Introduction.- A Survey of Architectures for Adaptive Hypermedia.- Adaptive Web-Based Educational Hypermedia.- MP3 - Mobile Portals, Profiles and Personalization.- Learning Web Request Patterns.