Multilevel adaptive aggregation for Markov chains, with application to web ranking

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2235-2262

  Sterck, H De ^a   Manteuffel, Thomas A ^b   Mccormick, Stephen F ^b   Nguyen, Quoc ^a   Ruge, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive aggregation; Markov chain; Multilevel method; Stationary probability vector; Web ranking

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

ADAPTIVE AGGREGATION; AGGREGATION PROCESS; ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRID METHODS; MATRIX; MULTILEVEL METHOD; MULTILEVELS; PROBABILITY VECTOR; STATIONARY PROBABILITY VECTOR; STOCHASTIC MATRICES; WEB RANKINGS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 55349090995     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070685142     Document Type: Article

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