Hey folks, since it did pass examination by the university, hereby I provide you with my bachelor's thesis of computer science: https://git.io/vwioF My past year's Freenet work of improving the core algorithm of WoT had been recycled into it.
Further, since the thesis aims to require no prior Freenet-related knowledge, it provides a pretty thorough explanation of how WoT works. Thus, you may consider it as the WoT core developer's manual. Besides getting to know how WoT works, it would be of scientific benefit for the project if you do read it: The end of the thesis describes how the algorithm might be further improved by investigating what can be considered as a whole class of algorithms. I have not heard about such a class of algorithms being identified and named by science yet. But this might be merely due to lack of my knowledge. So I hope that someone knows if this class of algorithms has already been discovered and analyzed by other people. This could help us a lot to further improve WoT with algorithms which are specially crafted to be fast at this type of problem. Feedback for improvement of the document is welcome: Besides some layout changes (see [1]) the document is still identical to what I handed in at university. Thus, it may contain many stupid mistakes caused by pre-deadline caffeine intoxication. I can also provide printed copies, university wants something around 30 EUR for printing. Greetings and thanks for reading! [1] Changes since the original version 1.1 (Ian and Steve: this is the one I had mailed to you): - The main text body has not been changed, so you don't need to re-read it! - The title page has been improved to contain the Freenet logo and provide a subtitle. - The "declaration of $boring_legal_stuff_for_university" page has been removed. - The LaTeX stuff which does line wrapping has been configured to allow wrapping URLs, which fixes a glitch in the layout of the bibliography.
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