Modeling the growth of future web

ABSTRACT

The future Web can be imagined as a life network consisting of resource nodes and semantic relationship links between them. Any node has a life span from birth - adding it to the network - to death - removing it from the network. Through establishing and investigating two types of models for such a network, we obtain the same scale free distribution of semantic links. Simulations and comparisons validate the rationality of the proposed models.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.1 Systems and Information Theory
          Subjects: General systems theory

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.1 Systems and Information Theory
          Subjects: Information theory; Value of information

General Terms:
Experimentation, Theory

Keywords:
distribution, evolution, power law, web