Modeling The Internet And The Web: Probabilistic Methods And Algorithms

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The World Wide Web is growing in size at a remarkable rate. It is a huge evolving system and its data are rife with uncertainties. Probability and statistics are the fundamental mathematical tools that enable us to model, reason, and infer meaningful results from such data. 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.

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Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms. P. Baldi, P. Frasconi and P. Smyth Copyright 2003 P. Baldi, P. Frasconi and P. Smyth. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 0-470-84906-1 Modeling the Internet and the Web Modeling the Internet and the Web Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms Pierre Baldi School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA Paolo Frasconi Department of Systems and Computer Science, University of Florence, Italy Padhraic Smyth School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA Copyright © 2003 Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi and Padhraic Smyth Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Phone (+44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): [email protected] Visit our Home Page on www.wileyeurope.com or www.wiley.com All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the te