Georgios Kouroupas, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H. Papadimitriou, and
Martha Sideri.
Experiments with an Economic Model of the Worldwide Web.
WINE 2005 (Internet and Network Economics: First International
Workshop),
pages 46-54, Hong Kong, China, December 15-17, 2005.
Abstract
We present a simple model in which the worldwide web (www) is created by the interaction of selfish agents, namely document authors, users, and search engines. We show experimentally that power law statistics emerge very naturally in this context, and that the efficiency of the system has certain monotonicity properties. A preliminary version of this work, without the experimental results, was presented as a poster in WWW 05.Bib
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@inproceedings{KKPS05,
author = {Georgios Kouroupas and Elias Koutsoupias and Christos
H. Papadimitriou and Martha Sideri},
title = {Experiments with an Economic Model of the Worldwide Web.},
booktitle = WINE2005,
address = {Hong Kong, China},
month = {15-17 } # dec,
year = {2005},
pages = {46-54},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11600930_6}
}