Modeling the Internet and the Web Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms (Hardcover)

From the Publisher: 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.| | Provides a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of the Internet and the Web at the information level. | Takes a modern approach based on mathematical, probabilistic, and graphical modeling. | Provides an integrated presentation of theory, examples, exercises and applications. | Covers key topics such as text analysis, link analysis, crawling techniques, human behaviour, and commerce on the Web.| |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.| |"This book is fascinating!" - David Hand (Imperial College, UK)| |"This book provides an extremely useful introduction to the intellectually stimulating problems of data mining electronic business." - Andreas S. Weigend (Chief Scientist, Amazon.com)