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STACS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of Techniques for Sampling Web Pages
As the World Wide Web is growing rapidly, it is getting increasingly challenging to gather representative information about it. Instead of crawling the web exhaustively one has to...
Eda Baykan, Monika Rauch Henzinger, Stefan F. Kell...
SODA
2008
ACM
88views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Sampling stable marriages: why spouse-swapping won't work
We study the behavior of random walks along the edges of the stable marriage lattice for various restricted families of allowable preference sets. In the "k-attribute model,&...
Nayantara Bhatnagar, Sam Greenberg, Dana Randall
CN
2000
109views more  CN 2000»
14 years 9 months ago
On near-uniform URL sampling
We consider the problem of sampling URLs uniformly at random from the Web. A tool for sampling URLs uniformly can be used to estimate various properties of Web pages, such as the ...
Monika Rauch Henzinger, Allan Heydon, Michael Mitz...
AAAI
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Clustering via Random Walk Hitting Time on Directed Graphs
In this paper, we present a general data clustering algorithm which is based on the asymmetric pairwise measure of Markov random walk hitting time on directed graphs. Unlike tradi...
Mo Chen, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang
TC
2008
14 years 9 months ago
The Convergence-Guaranteed Random Walk and Its Applications in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Network structure construction and global state maintenance are expensive in large-scale, dynamic peer-to-peer (p2p) networks. With inherent topology independence and low state mai...
Ming Zhong, Kai Shen, Joel I. Seiferas