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HodgeRank generalizes ranking algorithms, e.g. Google PageRank, to rank alternatives based on real-world (often incomplete) data using graphs and discrete exterior calculus. It analyzes multipartite interactions on high-dimensional networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Caesnan M. G. Leditto , Angus Southwell , Behnam Tonekaboni , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

Development of efficient business process models and determination of their characteristic properties are subject of intense interdisciplinary research. Here, we consider a business process model as a directed graph. Its nodes correspond to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2011-12-30 M. Abel , D. L. Shepelyansky

This paper presents our studies on the rearrangement of links from the structure of websites for the purpose of improving the valuation of a page or group of pages as established by a ranking function as Google's PageRank. We build our…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-04-25 Argimiro Arratia , Carlos Marijuán

Recently bipartite graphs have been widely used to represent the relationship two sets of items for information retrieval applications. The Web offers a wide range of data which can be represented by bipartite graphs, such us movies and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Antonia Korba

The evaluation of mathematical results plays a central role in assessing researchers' contributions and shaping the direction of the field. Currently, such evaluations rely primarily on human judgment, whether through journal peer review or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Gergely Bérczi , Bin Dong , Haocheng Ju , Tianyi Xu

We analyze linkage strategies for a set I of webpages for which the webmaster wants to maximize the sum of Google's PageRank scores. The webmaster can only choose the hyperlinks starting from the webpages of I and has no control on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-12-04 Cristobald de Kerchove , Laure Ninove , Paul Van Dooren

PageRank is a well-known algorithm for measuring centrality in networks. It was originally proposed by Google for ranking pages in the World-Wide Web. One of the intriguing empirical properties of PageRank is the so-called `power-law…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Alessandro Garavaglia , Remco van der Hofstad , Nelly Litvak

Google's PageRank has created a new synergy to information retrieval for a better ranking of Web pages. It ranks documents depending on the topology of the graphs and the weights of the nodes. PageRank has significantly advanced the field…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Ying Ding , Erjia Yan , Arthur Frazho , James Caverlee

PageRank is a ranking of the web pages that measures how often a given web page is visited by a random surfer on the web graph, for a simple model of web surfing. It seems realistic that PageRank may also have an influence on the behavior…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-12-05 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Laure Ninove

To account for strong aging characteristics of citation networks, we modify Google's PageRank algorithm by initially distributing random surfers exponentially with age, in favor of more recent publications. The output of this algorithm,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Dylan Walker , Huafeng Xie , Koon-Kiu Yan , Sergei Maslov

Identifying the importance of nodes of complex networks is of interest to the research of Social Networks, Biological Networks etc.. Current researchers have proposed several measures or algorithms, such as betweenness, PageRank and HITS…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Bojin Zheng , Deyi Li , Guisheng Chen , Wenhua Du , Jianmin Wang

We review the main findings on the ranking capabilities of the recently proposed Quantum PageRank algorithm (G.D. Paparo et al., Sci. Rep. 2, 444 (2012) and G.D. Paparo et al., Sci. Rep. 3, 2773 (2013)) applied to large complex networks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-15 G. D. Paparo , M. Müller , F. Comellas , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Over the last decade, PageRank has gained importance in a wide range of applications and domains, ever since it first proved to be effective in determining node importance in large graphs (and was a pioneering idea behind Google's search…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan , Eli Upfal

We study the statistical properties of various directed networks using ranking of their nodes based on the dominant vectors of the Google matrix known as PageRank and CheiRank. On average PageRank orders nodes proportionally to a number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Leonardo Ermann , Alexei D. Chepelianskii , Dima L. Shepelyansky

While PageRank has been extensively used to rank sport tournament participants (teams or individuals), its superiority over simpler ranking methods has been never clearly demonstrated. We use sports results from 18 major leagues to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yuhao Zhou , Ruijie Wang , Yi-Cheng Zhang , An Zeng , Matúš Medo

As the calculation of centrality in complex networks becomes increasingly vital across technological, biological, and social systems, precise and scalable ranking methods are essential for understanding these networks. This paper introduces…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Hao Ren , Jiaojiao Jiang

PageRank (PR) is an algorithm originally developed by Google to evaluate the importance of web pages. Considering how deeply rooted Google's PR algorithm is to gathering relevant information or to the success of modern businesses, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-10 Seung-Woo Son , Claire Christensen , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

Ranking on large-scale graphs plays a fundamental role in many high-impact application domains, ranging from information retrieval, recommender systems, sports team management, biology to neuroscience and many more. PageRank, together with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Jian Kang , Meijia Wang , Nan Cao , Yinglong Xia , Wei Fan , Hanghang Tong

The emergence and popularization of online social networks suddenly made available a large amount of data from social organization, interaction and human behavior. All this information opens new perspectives and challenges to the study of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-05 David Burth Kurka , Alan Godoy , Fernando J. Von Zuben

When we search online for content, we are constantly exposed to rankings. For example, web search results are presented as a ranking, and online bookstores often show us lists of best-selling books. While popularity-based ranking algorithms…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-28 Shilun Zhang , Matúš Medo , Linyuan Lü , Manuel Sebastian Mariani