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On the topology of the web of data
The Web of Data consists of the open accessible structured data on the Web. This includes the evolving number of Linked Open Data data sets but also the structured data which is embedded in Web pages. In this paper we address questions related to a unified definition of distinct data sets and factors that influence different network representations of structured Web data. The contributions are (1) an algorithm to generate a data set linking structure of the em- bedded structured data sourcing from (a) the Billion Triples Challenge corpus (b) the Web Data Commons corpus, and (c) the sindice crawl, (2) a discussion on the issue of identifying distinct data sets in a generic fashion, and (3) a high level visual abstraction of the current Web of Data topology
On the topology of the web of data
The Web of Data consists of the open accessible structured data on the Web. This includes the evolving number of Linked Open Data data sets but also the structured data which is embedded in Web pages. In this paper we address questions related to a unified definition of distinct data sets and factors that influence different network representations of structured Web data. The contributions are (1) an algorithm to generate a data set linking structure of the em- bedded structured data sourcing from (a) the Billion Triples Challenge corpus (b) the Web Data Commons corpus, and (c) the sindice crawl, (2) a discussion on the issue of identifying distinct data sets in a generic fashion, and (3) a high level visual abstraction of the current Web of Data topology
Social Ranking Techniques for the Web
The proliferation of social media has the potential for changing the
structure and organization of the web. In the past, scientists have looked at
the web as a large connected component to understand how the topology of
hyperlinks correlates with the quality of information contained in the page and
they proposed techniques to rank information contained in web pages. We argue
that information from web pages and network data on social relationships can be
combined to create a personalized and socially connected web. In this paper, we
look at the web as a composition of two networks, one consisting of information
in web pages and the other of personal data shared on social media web sites.
Together, they allow us to analyze how social media tunnels the flow of
information from person to person and how to use the structure of the social
network to rank, deliver, and organize information specifically for each
individual user. We validate our social ranking concepts through a ranking
experiment conducted on web pages that users shared on Google Buzz and Twitter.Comment: 7 pages, ASONAM 201
Some Properties of the Speciation Model for Food-Web Structure - Mechanisms for Degree Distributions and Intervality
We present a mathematical analysis of the speciation model for food-web
structure, which had in previous work been shown to yield a good description of
empirical data of food-web topology. The degree distributions of the network
are derived. Properties of the speciation model are compared to those of other
models that successfully describe empirical data. It is argued that the
speciation model unifies the underlying ideas of previous theories. In
particular, it offers a mechanistic explanation for the success of the niche
model of Williams and Martinez and the frequent observation of intervality in
empirical food webs.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, minor rewrite
Interplay between topology and dynamics in the World Trade Web
We present an empirical analysis of the network formed by the trade
relationships between all world countries, or World Trade Web (WTW). Each
(directed) link is weighted by the amount of wealth flowing between two
countries, and each country is characterized by the value of its Gross Domestic
Product (GDP). By analysing a set of year-by-year data covering the time
interval 1950-2000, we show that the dynamics of all GDP values and the
evolution of the WTW (trade flow and topology) are tightly coupled. The
probability that two countries are connected depends on their GDP values,
supporting recent theoretical models relating network topology to the presence
of a `hidden' variable (or fitness). On the other hand, the topology is shown
to determine the GDP values due to the exchange between countries. This leads
us to a new framework where the fitness value is a dynamical variable
determining, and at the same time depending on, network topology in a
continuous feedback.Comment: Proceedings of the 5th conference on Applications of Physics in
Financial Analysis (APFA5), 29 June - 1 July 2006, Torino (ITALY
Using the Topology of Large Scale Structure to constrain Dark Energy
The use of standard rulers, such as the scale of the Baryonic Acoustic
oscillations (BAO), has become one of the more powerful techniques employed in
cosmology to probe the entity driving the accelerating expansion of the
Universe. In this paper, the topology of large scale structure (LSS) is used as
one such standard ruler to study this mysterious `dark energy'. By following
the redshift evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) as
measured by their 3D topology (counting structures in the cosmic web), we can
chart the expansion rate and extract information about the equation of state of
dark energy. Using the technique first introduced in (Park & Kim, 2009), we
evaluate the constraints that can be achieved using 3D topology measurements
from next-generation LSS surveys such as the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (BOSS). In conjunction with the information that will be available from
the Planck satellite, we find a single topology measurement on 3 different
scales is capable of constraining a single dark energy parameter to within 5%
and 10% when dynamics are permitted. This offers an alternative use of the data
available from redshift surveys and serves as a cross-check for BAO studies.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Submitted to MNRAS, updated
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