Describing graphs: Exponents vs. Averages. Power-laws provide a new way to describe topological properties. Average values falsely imply a uniform distribution, and they can be misleading. For example, 85% of the AS-nodes in December 1998 had an outdegree less than the average outdegree! Protocol performance: Formulas based on power-laws provide estimates for the effective diameter, the average...

=2539165 (“Due to the robust nature of the immunity, Section 230 provides the legal foundation for many of the most popular websites that enable users to communicate with each other or the world at large.”). 24 See Edward Lee, Decoding the DMCA Safe Harbors, 32 COLUM. J.L. & ARTS 233, 269 (2009) (“[T]he DMCA safe harbors have helped to foster tremendous growth in web applications.”). 25 For a r...

During the last three decades the Internet has experienced fascinating evolution, both exponential growth in traffic and rapid expansion in topology. The size of the Internet becomes enormous, yet the network is very ‘small’ in the sense that it is extremely efficient to route data packets across the global Internet. This paper provides a brief review on three fundamental properties of the Inte...

Background: Online judgment is an economical and faster way than the judicial one. With the ‎development of technology in recent decades, it has also been possible to make judgments ‎online. Although few countries have incorporated this approach into their laws, online ‎judgments are being developed and implemented in various areas such as international trade or ‎intellectual property. The pres...