Authority rankings from HITS, PageRank, and SALSA: Existence, uniqueness, and effect of initialization

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1181-1201

  Farahat, Ayman ^a   Lofaro, Thomas ^b   Miller, Joel C ^c   Rae, Gregory ^d   Ward, Lesley A ^d  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorities; HITS algorithm; Hubs; Kleinberg's algorithm; Link analysis; Networks; PageRank algorithm; SALSA algorithm; Web search

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODIFICATION; THEOREM PROVING; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTHORITIES; HITS ALGORITHM; HUBS; KLEINBERG'S ALGORITHM; LINK ANALYSIS; NETWORKS; PAGERANK ALGORITHM; SALSA ALGORITHM; WEB SEARCH;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33746055316     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827502412875     Document Type: Article

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