The Web is a very large social network. It is important and interesting to understand the “ecology” of the Web: the general relations of Web pages to their environment. The un...
Traditional web link-based ranking schemes use a single score to measure a page’s authority without concern of the community from which that authority is derived. As a result, a...
Although PageRank has been designed to estimate the popularity of Web pages, it is a general algorithm that can be applied to the analysis of other graphs other than one of hypert...
Link farm spam and replicated pages can greatly deteriorate link-based ranking algorithms like HITS. In order to identify and neutralize link farm spam and replicated pages, we lo...
Summarizing web pages have recently gained much attention from researchers. Until now two main types of approaches have been proposed for this task: content- and context-based met...