New book: Modeling the Internet and the Web (Wiley 2003)

[Paolo Frasconi]

Some of the readers of this list might be interested in the following 
book

Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, and Padhraic Smyth, Modeling the
Internet and the Web Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms Wiley, 2003,
ISBN: 0-470-84906-1.

It covers various models and algorithms for the Web including
generative models of networks, IR and machine learning algorithms for
text analysis, link analysis, focused crawling, methods for modeling
user behavior, and for mining Web e-commerce data.

1. Mathematical Background - 2. Basic WWW Technologies - 3. Web Graphs -
4. Text Analysis - 5. Link analysis - 6. Advanced Crawling Techniques -
7. Modeling and Understanding Human Behavior on the Web - 8. Commerce
on the Web: Models and Applications - Appendix A  Mathematical
Complements - Appendix B List of Main Symbols and Abbreviations

The webpage http://ibook.ics.uci.edu/ contains more details, a
hyperlinked bibliography, and a sample chapter in pdf.


Regards,

Paolo Frasconi
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/