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Submitted on 22nd of January 2008
Author Papadimitriou, Panagiotis; Dasdan, Ali; Garcia-Molina, Hector
Title Web Graph Similarity for Anomaly Detection
Date of publication 2008
Citation Papadimitriou, Panagiotis; Dasdan, Ali; Garcia-Molina, Hector. Web Graph Similarity for Anomaly Detection,
Number of pages 31
Language English
Project Database Group
Type Technical Report
Subject group Databases and the Web
Abstract Web graphs are approximate snapshots of the web, created by search engines. They are essential to monitor the evolution of the web and to compute global properties like PageRank values of web pages. Their continuous monitoring requires a notion of graph similarity. Web graph similarity helps measure the amount and significance of changes in the evolving web. As a result, these measurements provide means to validate how well search engines acquire content from the web. In this paper we study five similarity schemes: three of them adapted from existing graph similarity measures, and two adapted from well-known document and vector similarity methods (namely, the shingling method and random projection based method). We compare and evaluate all five schemes using a sequence of web graphs for Yahoo!, and study if the schemes can identify anomalies that may occur due to hardware or other problems.
Keywords anomaly detection, graph similarity, web graph
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