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Adaptive crawler for external hyperlinks search and acquisition

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We describe a search robot (crawler) intended to collect information regarding outgoing hyperlinks from a given set of web sites related to a certain topic. The crawler’s adaptive behavior is formulated in terms of a multi-armed bandit problem. Our experiments show that the choice of an adaptive algorithm for the crawler’s rational behavior depends on the actual topic of the underlying set of web sites.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Pechnikov, D.I. Chernobrovkin, 2012, published in Upravlenie Bol’shimi Sistemami, 2012, No. 36, pp. 301–318.

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Pechnikov, A.A., Chernobrovkin, D.I. Adaptive crawler for external hyperlinks search and acquisition. Autom Remote Control 75, 587–593 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117914030151

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