DocumentCode
3260168
Title
Statistical Properties of Portals´ Users Activity
Author
Chmiel, Anna ; Kowalska, Kamila ; Holyst, Janusz A.
Author_Institution
Fac. of Phys., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland
fYear
2009
fDate
22-24 June 2009
Firstpage
41
Lastpage
45
Abstract
We investigate the behavior of users at the Web portal. We focus on transitions between two subpages, using the information about the path of the users. We construct a weighted network with portal subpages being its nodes and the weights of edges defined as a number of transition from between different subpages. We scrutinize the properties of such a network as a distribution of weights and strengths that corresponds to the power-law relation, as well as the statistics of users behavior. The latter brings interesting results: the average number of distinct subpages visited during the n-th step of a visit scales as a square root relation.
Keywords
portals; statistical analysis; Web portal user activity; portal subpage; power-law relation; square root relation; statistical property; user behavior; Data analysis; Humans; Informatics; Information resources; Internet; Navigation; Physics; Portals; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; complex networks; human dynamics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Social Informatics, 2009. SOCINFO '09. International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Warsaw
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3706-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/SocInfo.2009.13
Filename
5230713
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