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The literature is rich with (re)discoveries of power law phenomena; this is especially true of observations of link and traffic behavior on the Web. We survey the origins of these phenomena and several (yet incomplete) attempts to model them. We then present a number of open problems in Web research arising from these observations.
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Raghavan, P. (2008). Heavy Tails and Web Models. In: Greco, S., Lukasiewicz, T. (eds) Scalable Uncertainty Management. SUM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87993-0_2
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