Web Communities Analysis and Construction /

• Main Authors: Zhang, Yanchun (Author), Yu, Jeffrey Xu (Author), Hou, Jingyu (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; E-commerce.; Computer engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Engineering.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; e-Commerce/e-business.

Due to the lack of a uniform schema for Web documents and the sheer amount and dynamics of Web data, both the effectiveness and the efficiency of information management and retrieval of Web data is often unsatisfactory when using conventional data management techniques. Web community, defined as a s...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• HITS and Related Algorithms
• PageRank Related Algorithms
• Affinity and Co-Citation Analysis Approaches
• Building a Web Community
• Web Community Related Techniques
• Conclusions.