Web Warehousing Design and Issues网络仓储设计与问题.pptVIP

copy-right@sanjaymadria, UMR Web Data Management Sanjay Kumar Madria Department of Computer Science University of Missouri-Rolla madrias@ WWW Huge, widely distributed, heterogeneous collection of semi-structured multimedia documents in the form of web pages connected via hyperlinks. World Wide Web Web is fast growing More business organizations putting information in the Web Business on the highway Myriad of raw data to be processed for information As WWW grows, more chaotic it becomes Web is fast growing, distributed, non-administered global information resource WWW allows access to text, image, video, sound and graphic data More business organizations creating web servers More chaotic environment to locate information of interest Lost in hyperspace syndrome Characteristics of WWW WWW is a set of directed graphs Data in the WWW has a heterogeneous nature, self-describing and schema less Unstructured information , deeply nested No central authority to manage information Dynamic verses static information Web information discoveries - search engines Web is Growing! In 1994, WWW grew by 1758 % !! June 1993 - 130 June 1994 - 1265 Dec. 1994 - 11,576 April 1995 - 15,768 July 1995 - 23,000+ 2000 - !!!!! ‘COM’ domains are increasing! As of July 1995, 6.64 million host computers on the Internet: 1.74 million are ‘com’ domains 1.41 million are ‘edu’ domains 0.30 million are ‘net’ 0.27 million are ‘gov’ 0.22 million are ‘mil’ 0.20 million are ‘org’ Top web countries 1. Canada (1) 80% 9. New Zealand(7)101 2. US (4) 140% 10. Sweden (9) 101% 3. Ireland (3) 110% 11. Israel (12) 112% 4. Iceland (2) 68% 12. Cyprus (8) 72% 5. UK (14) 336 % 13. Hong Kong (15)148% 6. Malta (5) 155% 14. Norway (10) 64% 7. Australia (6) 133% 15. Switzerland (13) 75% 8. Singapore (11) 207% 16. Denmark (16) 105% How users find web sites Indexes and search engines 75 UseNet newsgroups 44 Cool lists 27 New l