Probabilistic relation between in-degree and PageRank

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4936 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 72-83

  Litvak, Nelly ^a   Scheinhardt, Werner R W ^a   Volkovich, Yana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

In Degree; PageRank; Power law; Regular variation; Stochastic equation; Web measurement

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSIONS; IN-DEGREE; PAGE RANKS; PAGERANK; POWER LAW; POWER LAWS; REGULAR VARIATION; REGULAR VARIATIONS; STOCHASTIC EQUATION; STOCHASTIC EQUATIONS; TAIL DISTRIBUTIONS; WEB DATA; WEB MEASUREMENT; WEB PAGES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 49049094040     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78808-9_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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