Strong regularities in world wide web surfing

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5360, 1998, Pages 95-97

  Huberman, Bernardo A ^a   Pirolli, Peter L T ^a   Pitkow, James E ^a   Lukose, Rajan M ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032478716     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5360.95     Document Type: Article

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15. Parts of this research were supported by NSF grant IRI-961511 (B.A.H.), Office of Naval Research grant N00014-96-C-0097 (P.L.T.P. and S. Card), and a Citibank fellowship at Stanford University (R.M.L.). We also thank M. Crovella for his comments on a draft of this paper and D. Aronson for providing the AOL data.