Network flows: theory, algorithms, and applications
Network flows: theory, algorithms, and applications
Dynamic shortest paths in acyclic networks with Markovian arc costs
Operations Research
From user access patterns to dynamic hypertext linking
Proceedings of the fifth international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks and ISDN systems
Cyberbrowsing: information customization on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Navigation in Hypertext Is Easy Only Sometimes
SIAM Journal on Computing
Communications of the ACM
Link prediction and path analysis using Markov chains
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Towards adaptive Web sites: conceptual framework and case study
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Intelligent internet systems
An information retrieval system based on a user profile
Journal of Systems and Software
Knowledge and Information Systems
Mining the Web's Link Structure
Computer
Stochastic models for the Web graph
FOCS '00 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Capturing User Access Patterns in the Web for Data Mining
ICTAI '99 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Collaborative Web Crawling: Information Gathering/Processing over Internet
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 5 - Volume 5
The design and evaluation of accessibility on web navigation
Decision Support Systems
Letizia: an agent that assists web browsing
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A probabilistic approach to navigation in Hypertext
Information Sciences: an International Journal
The web as a graph: measurements, models, and methods
COCOON'99 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
Editorial: A topic-specific crawling strategy based on semantics similarity
Data & Knowledge Engineering
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With the advent of fast growing Internet and World Wide Web (the Web), more and more companies enhance the business competitiveness by conducting electronic commerce. At the same time, more and more people gather or process information by surfing on the Web. However, due to unbalanced Web traffic and poorly organized information, users suffer from slow communication and disordered information. To improve the situation, information providers can analyze the traffic and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) counters to adjust the information layering and organization; nevertheless, heterogeneous navigation patterns and dynamic fluctuating Web traffic complicate the improvement process. Alternatively, improvement can be made by giving direct guidance to the surfers in navigating the Web sites. In this paper, information retrieval on a Web site is modeled as a Markov chain associated with the corresponding dynamic Web traffic and designated information pages. We consider four models of information retrieval based on combination of the level of skill or experience of the surfers as well as the degree of navigation support by the sites. Simulation is conducted to evaluate the performance of the different types of navigation guidance. In addition, we evaluate the four models of information retrieval in terms of complexity and applicability. The paper concludes with a research summary and a direction for future research efforts.