Publications

Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, and Padhraic Smyth, Modeling the Internet and the Web - Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms Wiley, 2003, ISBN: 0-470-84906-1.

It covers various models and algorithms for the Web including generative models of networks, IR and machine learning algorithms for text analysis, link analysis, focused crawling, methods for modeling user behavior, and for mining Web e-commerce data.

The webpage of the book http://ibook.ics.uci.edu/ contains more details, a hyperlinked bibliography, and a sample chapter in pdf.

Paolo Frasconi
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/