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Dissertation Information for Lada A. Adamic

NAME:
- Lada A. Adamic
- (Alias) Lada Ariana Adamic

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Physics

SCHOOL:
- Stanford University (USA) (2001)

ADVISORS:
- Bernardo A. Huberman

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Sebastian Doniach
- Jerome H. Friedman

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Network dynamics: The World Wide Web

Abstract: Despite its rapidly growing and dynamic nature, the Web displays a number of strong regularities which can be understood by drawing on methods of statistical physics. This thesis finds power-law distributions in website sizes, traffic, and links, and more importantly, develops a stochastic theory which explains them. Power-law link distributions are shown to lead to network characteristics which are especially suitable for scalable localized search. It is also demonstrated that the Web is a "small world": to reach one site from any other takes an average of only 4 hops, while most related sites cluster together. Additional dynamical properties of the Web graph are extracted from diffusion processes.

MPACT Scores for Lada A. Adamic

A = 2
C = 1
A+C = 3
T = 2
G = 1
W = 2
TD = 2
TA = 0
calculated 2012-07-31 10:10:27

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