III-CXT: Computer Science Research Using the Cornell Web Lab to Study Social and Informational Processes on the Web

IIS -0705774 Arms，William Y.Cornel UniversityIII-CXT-Computer Science Research Using the Cornell Web Lab to Study Social andInformation Processes on the Web该项目是计算机科学家和社会科学家之间的合作努力，以促进对万维网动态及其对科学和社会影响的理解。 网络实验室使社会科学学者和其他人能够研究与创新传播相关的问题-新思想如何产生并在大量人群中传播。该提案解决了基本的新计算和信息科学研究问题，并将Web Lab数据集扩展到新的深度和复杂性水平，以便可以探索关键的规模问题。该项目有四个目标：（1）开发大规模数据集，支持有关Web的性质和演变的广泛研究，（2）通过将社会科学的假设驱动研究方法与计算机和信息科学的大规模信息结构建模相结合，研究Web上的人类交互，（3）通过开发Web的创建，修改，和销毁的网页和链接结构，并通过测试这些模型的Web规模的快照，和（4）使数据集可在TeraGrid。

IIS - 0705774Arms, William Y.Cornel UniversityIII-CXT-Computer Science Research Using the Cornell Web Lab to Study Social andInformation Processes on the WebThe project is a collaborative effort between computer scientists and social scientists to advance understanding of the dynamics of the World Wide Web and its impact on science and society. The Web Lab enables social science scholars and others to study issues related to the diffusion of innovation - how new ideas arise and spread across large populations. The proposal addresses fundamental new computing and information science research questions and extends the Web Lab datasets to new levels of depth and complexity so that critical issues of scale can be explored. The project has four goals: (1) to develop large-scale datasets that support wide ranging research about the nature and evolution of the Web, (2) to study human interaction on the Web by combing methods of hypothesis-driven research from the social sciences with large-scale modeling of information structures from computer and information sciences, (3) to understand better how the Web evolves over time by developing models of the creation, modification, and destruction of pages and link structures, and by testing those models on Web-scale snapshots, and (4) to make the datasets available over the TeraGrid.