Experiments with an Economic Model of the Worldwide Web

We present a simple model in which the worldwide web (www) is created by the interaction of selfish agents, namely document authors, users, and search engines. We show experimentally that power law statistics emerge very naturally in this context, and that the efficiency of the system has certain monotonicity properties.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WINE
• Authors: Georgios Kouroupas, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Martha Sideri
• Keywords: Certain Monotonicity Properties, Economy, Power Law Statistics, Selfish Agents, WINE 2005