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Description:
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World Wide Web has become a ubiquitous tool for finding information,
performing distributed computation, and conducting business, learning
and science. In order to fully exploit its huge potential as a global
information repository, we need to understand the dynamics of the Web.
Levene and Poulovassilis set the scene by giving an overview of the
ways in which the Web is dynamic in its content, size, topology and
use, and they point to some of the technical challenges caused by its
dynamic nature. The subsequent contributions from leading experts are
structured into four parts: evolution of the Web's structure and
content, searching and navigating the Web, handling events and change
on the Web, and personalized access to the Web. The authors describe
the current state of the art in areas such as methods for identifying
Web communities, Web navigation and crawling, measuring how well search
engines cope with change, Active XML and Active XQuery, adaptive
hypermedia, and personalization in mobile portals. The overall result
is a coherent, comprehensive picture of the field.The book introduces
the reader to this exciting field, as well as being a lasting source of
reference for res
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Contents List:
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Part
1: Evolution of Web Structure and Content: How Large is the World Wide
Web (Dobra, Fienberg); Methods for Mining Web Communities (Flake,
Tsioutsiouliklis, Zhukov); Theory of Random Networks (Mendes); Web
Dynamics, Structure, and Page Quality (Baeza-Yates, Castillo,
Saint-Jean) * Part 2: Web Information Retrieval: Navigating the World
Wide Web (Levene, Wheeldon); Crawling the Web (Pant, Srinivasan,
Menczer);
Combining Link and Content Information in Web Search
(Richardson, Domingos); Search Engine Ability to Cope with the Changing
Web (Bar-Ilan) * Part 3: Handling Events and Change on the Web: An
Event-Condition-Action Language for XML (Bailey, Papamarkos,
Poulovassilis, Wood); Active XQuery (Bonifati, Paraboschi); Active XML:
A Data-Centric Perspective on Web Services (Abiteboul, Benjelloun,
Manolescu, Milo, Weber); WebVigiL - An Approach to Just-In-Time
Information Propagation in Large Network-Centric Environments (Jacob,
Sanka, Pandrangi, Chakravarthy); DREAM: Distributed Reliable
Event-Based Application Management (Buchmann, Bornhovd, Cilia, Fiege,
Gartner, Liebig, Meixner, Muhl) * Part 4: Personalised Access to the
Web: A Survey of Architectures for Adaptive Hypermedia (Cannataro,
Pugliese); Adaptive Web-Based Educational Hypermedia (De Bra, Aroyo,
Cristea); MP3 - Mobile Portals, Profiles, and Personalization (Smyth,
Cotter); Learning Web Request Patterns (Davison).
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