Approximation algorithm for hotlink assignments in web directories

Rachel Matichin, David Peleg

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Abstract

Hotlink assignment concerns the addition of shortcut links to information structures based on linked nodes such as the web. Each node in the structure is associated with a weight representing the frequency that node is accessed by users. To access a node, the user must follow the path leading to it from the root. Introducing additional edges (hotlinks) to the structure may reduce its access cost, taken to be the expected number of steps needed to reach a node from the root. The hotlink assignment problem is to find a set of hotlinks achieving the greatest improvement in the access cost. This paper introduces an approximation algorithm for this problem with approximation ratio 2.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsFrank Dehne, Jorg-Rudiger Sack, Michiel Smid
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages271-280
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540405453
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2748
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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