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   Some of the readers of this list might be interested in the following   
   book   
      
   Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, and Padhraic Smyth, Modeling the   
   Internet and the Web Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms Wiley, 2003,   
   ISBN: 0-470-84906-1.   
      
   It covers various models and algorithms for the Web including   
   generative models of networks, IR and machine learning algorithms for   
   text analysis, link analysis, focused crawling, methods for modeling   
   user behavior, and for mining Web e-commerce data.   
      
   1. Mathematical Background - 2. Basic WWW Technologies - 3. Web Graphs -   
   4. Text Analysis - 5. Link analysis - 6. Advanced Crawling Techniques -   
   7. Modeling and Understanding Human Behavior on the Web - 8. Commerce   
   on the Web: Models and Applications - Appendix A  Mathematical   
   Complements - Appendix B List of Main Symbols and Abbreviations   
      
   The webpage http://ibook.ics.uci.edu/ contains more details, a   
   hyperlinked bibliography, and a sample chapter in pdf.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Paolo Frasconi   
   http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/   
      
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