Multilevel aggregation methods for small-world graphs with application to random-walk ranking

Computing and Informatics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-246

  De Sterck, Hans ^a   Van Henson, Emden ^b   Sanders, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Markov chain; Multilevel; Random graphs

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CHAINS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEARCH ENGINES;

AGGREGATION METHODS; MULTI-LEVEL HIERARCHIES; MULTILEVEL; NONSINGULAR LINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY VECTOR; RANDOM GRAPHS; RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS; SMALL WORLD GRAPHS;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 79955610756     PISSN: 13359150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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