Based on a talk in vienna, at FIS96, 15 jun 96
Rev. 1.1 of 29 jul 96
To appear in World Futures, 1997

Webometry: measuring the complexity of the World Wide Web

by

Ralph H. Abraham, abraham@vismath.org
Visual Math Institute, http://www.vismath.org

POB 7920, Santa Cruz, CA, USA-95061-7920

Abstract.

The explosive growth of the WWW may be viewed as the neurogenesis phase in the embryogenesis of a new planetary civilization. To empower this emergent phenomenon with self- reflection, we propose strategies for the visualization of the complexity of the WWW, seen as a neural net. The pointwise fractal dimension of a massive matrix is the basis of our strategy.

CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. Connectionism
  3. Visualization of massive neural nets
  4. Measuring the WWW
  5. Conclusion Acknowledgments
    Bibliography