eBay: An e-commerce marketplace as a complex network

Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 655-664

  Shen, Zeqian ^a   Sundaresan, Neel ^a  

^a EBAY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction; Complex network; ECommerce; Network motif; Power law; Preferential connections

Indexed keywords

AUCTION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; ECOMMERCE; NETWORK MOTIF; POWER LAW; PREFERENTIAL CONNECTIONS;

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 79952429004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1935826.1935916     Document Type: Conference Paper

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