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Experiments with an Economic Model of the Worldwide Web

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Abstract

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.

A preliminary version of this work, without the experimental results, was presented as a poster in WWW 05 [5].

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  1. Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, 104 34, Athens, Greece

    Georgios Kouroupas & Martha Sideri

  2. Dept of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia, 157 84, Athens, Greece

    Elias Koutsoupias

  3. University of California, Berkeley, Soda Hall 689, Berkeley, 94720, CA, USA

    Christos H. Papadimitriou

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon ,, Hong Kong

    Xiaotie Deng

  2. Stanford University, Stanford, CA

    Yinyu Ye

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Kouroupas, G., Koutsoupias, E., Papadimitriou, C.H., Sideri, M. (2005). Experiments with an Economic Model of the Worldwide Web. In: Deng, X., Ye, Y. (eds) Internet and Network Economics. WINE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3828. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11600930_6

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