Webometrics: Some Critical Issues of WWW Size Estimation Methods

Webometrics and Social Web Research Methods

Webometrics

Introduction Webometrics, the quantitative study of Web-related phenomena, emerged from the realization that methods originally designed for bibliometric analysis of scientific journal article citation patterns could be applied to the Web, with commercial search engines providing the raw data. Almind and Ingwersen (1997) defined the field and gave it its name. Other pioneers included Rodriguez ...

Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical issues.

This paper explores the potential of Bourdieu's approach to capital as a way of understanding class dynamics in contemporary capitalism. Recent rethinking of class analysis has sought to move beyond what Rosemary Crompton (1998) calls the 'employment aggregate approach', one which involves categorizing people into class groups according to whether they have certain attributes (e.g. occupations)...

Designing Agent Systems: Some Critical Issues

In this short survey paper we first describe the general requirements of intelligent agent systems, and especially the requirements of ubiquitous intelligent agents. We also give an general overview of the state-of-art of the agent design. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the current design methods, which generally are based on object-oriented design methodologies, and try to...

Municipal Finance in India: Some Critical Issues

With the help of the available literature, the paper attempts to assess critically the main problems of municipal finances in India and to bring out the challenges that the municipalities face with respect to revenue generation and expenditure management. The main findings suggest that the urban local bodies in India are confronted with lack of proper decentralization of functions and finances,...