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Models of Random Graphs and Their Applications to the Web-Graph Analysis

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This course provides an overview of various models for random graphs and their applications to the Web graph. We start with the classical Erdős-Rényi model, then proceed with the most recent models describing the topology and growth of the Internet, social networks, economic network, and biological networks, and finally present several applications of these models to the problems of search and crawling.

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The author was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant no. 15-01-00350, and by grant NSH-2964.2014.1 for support of leading scientific schools.

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Raigorodskii, A. (2016). Models of Random Graphs and Their Applications to the Web-Graph Analysis. In: Braslavski, P., et al. Information Retrieval. RuSSIR 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 573. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41718-9_5

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