Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication PrinciplesThe Exploration of Web Sites with Link Structure Graphs

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"The Exploration of Web Sites with Link Structure Graphs"
by Jun Yang and Zhigang Tang
in Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Management of eCommerce and eGovernment, Sept. 2009, pp. 209-212

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE\´s Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Link Structure Graphs for Representing and Analyzing Web Sites,"
by Eduarda Mendes Rodrigues, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Martin Hicks, Gavin Smyth,
in Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2006-94, June 2006

Standard Web graph representation fails to capture topic association and functional groupings of links and their occurrence across pages in the site. So we introduce a novel method for representing hypertext organization of Web sites in the form of Link Structure Graphs (LSGs). The LSG captures both the organization of links at the page level and the overall hyperlink structure of the collection of pages. Our approach is supported by the findings of an exploratory user study that reveals how the hyperlink structure is generally perceived by the users. We apply the algorithm to a sample of Web sites and discuss their link structure properties.