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Observation of network structure in Amazon.com


Abstract:

Amazon.com is among the largest bookstores on the internet. It provides the sales rank of each book. Our hypothesis is as follows: if a book has low sales rank (i.e., it ...Show More

Abstract:

Amazon.com is among the largest bookstores on the internet. It provides the sales rank of each book. Our hypothesis is as follows: if a book has low sales rank (i.e., it is well-sold), the related book also has a low sales rank. In the small world principle, if a network is connected, any two nodes are connected with relatively small number of links. If this hypothesis is true, any book can link to a bestseller book with small number of distance by linking some related books. In this paper, we design an algorithm to ascertain our hypothesis, and analyze the network structure of Amazon.com.
Date of Conference: 08-11 June 2009
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 26 June 2009
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Conference Location: Richardson, TX, USA

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