Exploring Structural Properties of Web Graphs through 3D Visualization

Zhiming Chen, András Faragó, Kang Zhang

2012

Abstract

The link structure of the World Wide Web is generally reckoned as a Web graph. Understanding the structure of the Web graph is crucial to effective modeling of the Web. One approach that facilitates this understanding is to provide sophisticated visualization tools for users to intuitively view the Web structure. Many structural properties of a graph can be revealed by visualization so that direct comparison between different Web graph models and real Web graph samples become possible. Our approach visualizes Web graphs in microscopic and macroscopic levels in a three dimensional space and also uses a structural mining method to specify isolated cliques or other meaningful structures in Web graphs which provides an innovative perspective in visualization of large graphs.

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Chen Z., Faragó A. and Zhang K. (2012). Exploring Structural Properties of Web Graphs through 3D Visualization . In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-11-2, pages 233-238. DOI: 10.5220/0003979502330238


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@conference{iceis12,
author={Zhiming Chen and András Faragó and Kang Zhang},
title={Exploring Structural Properties of Web Graphs through 3D Visualization},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2012},
pages={233-238},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003979502330238},
isbn={978-989-8565-11-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Exploring Structural Properties of Web Graphs through 3D Visualization
SN - 978-989-8565-11-2
AU - Chen Z.
AU - Faragó A.
AU - Zhang K.
PY - 2012
SP - 233
EP - 238
DO - 10.5220/0003979502330238