Agents, bookmarks and clicks: A topical model of Web navigation

HT'10 - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 229-233

  Meiss, Mark R ^a,b   Gonçalves, Bruno ^a,b   Ramasco, José J ^c   Flammini, Alessandro ^a,b   Menczer, Filippo ^a,b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Back button; Bookmarks; BookRank; Browsing; Clicks; Entropy; Interest; Navigation; PageRank; Sessions; Topicality; Traffic; Web links

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; BACK BUTTON; BOOKMARKS; PAGERANK; WEB LINKS;

HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 77954945972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1810617.1810658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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