Link analysis ranking: Algorithms, theory, and experiments

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 231-297

  Borodin, Allan ^a   Roberts, Gareth O ^b   Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^a   Tsaparas, Panayiotis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian; HITS; Link analysis; Ranking; Web search

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACH; HITS; LINK ANALYSIS; RANKING; WEB SEARCH;

ALGEBRA; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 16244369398     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1052934.1052942     Document Type: Article

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