Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms

by Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth

This book covers the most important aspects of the web using modern mathematical and probabilistic treatment. It focuses on the information and application layers, as well as some of the emerging properties of the Internet and looks at new topics such as web graphics and highlights recent work from experts in the field of networks such as Kleinberg, Leskovec, Faloutsos and Newman. Provides new material on link analysis, LDA and non parametric Bayesian methods and features a new section on topic modelling applied to large-scale software data.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2003

About the author

Pierre Baldi is Professor of Information and Computer Science and of Biological Chemistry (College of Medicine) and Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews

[Daniel Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

More-or-less what it says on the can - mathematical modeling of various aspects of the internet and its use. Requires undergraduate-level maths to understand. Slightly dated now (nothing on social networking, for example).