In this paper we measure correlation between link analysis characteristics for Web pages such as in- and out-degree, PageRank and RBS with those obtained from real Web traffic ana...
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor α that spre...
We study the PageRank mass of principal components in a bow-tie Web Graph, as a function of the damping factor c. Using a singular perturbation approach, we show that the PageRank ...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Nelly Litvak, Kim Son Pham
Web Directories are repositories of Web pages organized in a hierarchy of topics and sub-topics. In this paper, we present DirectoryRank, a ranking framework that orders the pages...
Vlassis Krikos, Sofia Stamou, Pavlos Kokosis, Alex...
Web spam pages use various techniques to achieve higher-than-deserved rankings in a search engine’s results. While human experts can identify spam, it is too expensive to manual...