What Can We Learn about Distributed Problem Solving Networks via Web Analysis?

Webmetrics (a method to measure and analyze weblinks) is applied to a subset of news sites: many of them studied in the 'online news aggregators' case study of the Distributed Problem Solving Networks (DPSN) project.

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