scholarly journals The shape of the past in the World Wide Web: Scale-free patterns and dynamics

2007 ◽  
Vol 385 (2) ◽  
pp. 683-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Jovani ◽  
Miguel A. Fortuna
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Library Internet Resources: Conducting Performing Arts Research Online

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Susan Brady
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Internet Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Electronic Access

Over the past decade academic and research libraries throughout the world have taken advantage of the enormous developments in communication technology to improve services to their users. Through the Internet and the World Wide Web researchers now have convenient electronic access to library catalogs, indexes, subject bibliographies, descriptions of manuscript and archival collections, and other resources. This brief overview illustrates how libraries are facilitating performing arts research in new ways.

Evolving Gender Communication Issues in E-Collaboration

2011 ◽  
pp. 259-264
Author(s):  
Cathy L.Z. DuBois
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Gender Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

Much has been written about gender differences in communication. Gender stereotypes propose that men communicate in a direct manner and focus on information; women communicate in an indirect manner and focus on relationships. Tannen (1995) suggests that gender differences in communication contribute to the “glass ceiling.” Further, Eubanks (2000) noted that the Internet and the World Wide Web are actively and aggressively hostile to women. Such discourse fosters gender stereotypes of the past and paints a gloomy picture for women with regard to participation and success in the realm of workplace e-collaboration.

African Web Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esharenana E. Adomi
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) has led to the advent of the information age. With increased demand for information from various quarters, the Web has turned out to be a veritable resource. Web surfers in the early days were frustrated by the delay in finding the information they needed. The first major leap for information retrieval came from the deployment of Web search engines such as Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, etc. The rapid growth in the popularity of the Web during the past few years has led to a precipitous pronouncement of death for the online services that preceded the Web in the wired world.

Priority Weighted Fitness Model in Networks

2012 ◽  
Vol 229-231 ◽  
pp. 1854-1857
Author(s):  
Xin Yi Chen
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Power Law ◽  
Common Property ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Genetic Networks ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Large Networks ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
The World ◽  
Complex Topology

Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the World Wide Web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a power-law distribution. This feature was found to be a consequence of three generic mechanisms: (i) networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, (ii) new vertex with priority selected different edges of weighted selected that connected to different vertices in the system, and (iii) by the fitness probability that a new vertices attach preferentially to sites that are already well connected. A model based on these ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, which indicates that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena. Experiment results show that the model is more close to the actual Internet network.

Scale-free characteristics of random networks: the topology of the world-wide web

2000 ◽  
Vol 281 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 69-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert-László Barabási ◽  
Réka Albert ◽  
Hawoong Jeong
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Random Networks ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
The World

Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

2010 ◽  
pp. 1203-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Kollmann ◽  
Carina Lomberg
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Generation Technology

Both, Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 were linked directly to new stages in the development of e-business. Whereas the distinction between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 became widely accepted in literature and practice, we are merely at the beginning of the possibilities arising from current trends culminating in our information society. Information emerges increasingly as a major factor of production, allowing the activation of innovative business opportunities. However, over the past years, a sheer explosion of supplies has taken place. This development is both a blessing and a curse as it leads to an oversupply of information within the World Wide Web. Thus, the time needed for finding required information may take longer eventually. Therefore, a next generation technology is needed being capable to cope with these challenges. Due to the logic of this chain of ideas, Web 3.0 technologies are characterized particularly by demand-orientated systems, i.e. demand for objects and services are at the centre. Starting point are demand-driven registration and specification systems. The consumer is at the centre of these processes and will gain individual help, comparable to an information desk. Not only information but also individual products and services may be released (customized products).

Discovery and Existence of Communities in the World Wide Web

2010 ◽  
pp. 436-442
Author(s):  
Antonis Sidiropoulos ◽  
Dimitrios Katsaros ◽  
Yannis Manolopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Network Growth ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
The World ◽  
Degree Structure ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a characteristic example of a social network (Newman, 2003; Wasserman & Faust, 1994). Other examples of social networks include the food web network, scientific collaboration networks, sexual relationships networks, metabolic networks, and air transportation networks. Socials networks are usually abstracted as graphs, comprised by vertices, edges (directed or not), and in some cases, with weights on these edges. Social network theory is concerned with properties related to connectivity (degree, structure, centrality), distances (diameter, shortest paths), “resilience” (geodesic edges or vertices, articulation vertices) of these graphs, models of network growth. Social networks have been studied long before the conception of the Web. Pioneering works for the characterization of the Web as a social network and for the study of its basic properties are due to the work of Barabasi and its colleagues (Albert, Jeong & Barabasi, 1999). Later, several studies investigated other aspects like its growth (Bianconi & Barabasi, 2001; Menczer, 2004; Pennock, Flake, Lawrence, Glover, & Giles, 2002; Watts & Strogatz, 1998), its “small-world” nature in that pages can reach other pages with only a small number of links, and its scale-free nature (Adamic & Huberman, 2000; Barabasi & Albert, 1999; Barabasi & Bonabeau, 2003) (i.e., a feature implying that it is dominated by a relatively small number of Web pages that are connected to many others; these pages are called hubs and have a seemingly unlimited number of hyperlinks). Thus, the distribution of Web page linkages follows a power law in that most nodes have just a few hyperlinks and some have a tremendous number of links In that sense, the system has no “scale” (see Figure 1).

Intellectual Property and the Internet

2008 ◽  
pp. 222-227
Author(s):  
Alexandra George
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Computer Networks ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Almost All

‘Intellectual property’ (or ‘IP’) is an umbrella term that is used as shorthand to describe a variety of diverse doctrines that create legally-enforceable monopolies over the use of or access to ideas, information and knowledge. As the Internet is essentially a structure through which such material can be presented, organised, transmitted and disseminated, IP is a key area of law that is used to regulate activity on the Internet. The pervasive significance of this becomes clear when one considers that much of the hardware that forms the framework of computer networks that comprise the Internet, and almost all of the data carried through these networks and linked via the World Wide Web, are—or have been in the past—subject to regulation by IP laws.

scholarly journals Integrating Digital Multimedia, Computer-based Instruction, and the World Wide Web into an Introductory Biology Curriculum

HortScience ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 697b-697
Author(s):  
R.W. Peifer
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
World Wide ◽  
General Applicability ◽  
Undergraduate Instruction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Image Library ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Based Instruction

During the past 6 years, the General Biology Program at the Univ. of Minnesota has been exploring the use of computer-based multimedia to improve the quality of undergraduate instruction in large undergraduate courses. Our project has created an image library of about 3500 computer graphics, animations, and digital video sequences for lecture support, as well as the software to present and manage this image library. During the past 3 years, students have used computers for modeling, simulation, and problem-solving activities in the laboratory of our evolution and ecology undergraduate course. Most recently, we have begun to integrate the World Wide Web into our curriculum in a variety of ways. This presentation demonstrates the comprehensive way in which our Program has combined these “new” information technologies into our introductory courses. The general applicability of this approach to any discipline will be discussed.

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