A modeling approach to uncover hyperlink patterns: The case of Canadian universities

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 347-359

  Vaughan, Liwen ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyperlink patterns; Mathematical modeling; University Web sites

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; WEBSITES;

COMMUNICATION DEVICES; HYPERLINK PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; UNIVERSITY WEB SITES;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 7544220666     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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