Overview
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)
Full Product Details
Author: Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA) ,
Paolo Frasconi (University,of Florence, Italy) ,
Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.595kg
ISBN: 9780470849064
ISBN 10: 0470849061
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 25 April 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9780470663776
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
"""…I congratulate the authors on a very well-researched and well-written publication."" (Technometrics, August 2004, Vol. 46, No. 3) “…fascinating …I highly recommend this book…” (Short Book Reviews, August 2004) “…a very well-researched and well-written publication.” (Technometrics, August 2004) "
...I congratulate the authors on a very well-researched and well-written publication. (Technometrics, August 2004, Vol. 46, No. 3) ...fascinating ...I highly recommend this book... (Short Book Reviews, August 2004) ...a very well-researched and well-written publication. (Technometrics, August 2004)
Author Information
Pierre Baldi is a chancellor's professor of computer science at University of California Irvine and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics. Paolo Frasconi is the author of Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms, published by Wiley.
