A Cautious Surfer for PageRank

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Lan Nie, Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison

Abstract
This work proposes a novel cautious surfer to incorporate trust into the process of calculating authority for web pages. We evaluate a total of sixty queries over two large, real-world datasets to demonstrate that incorporating trust can improve PageRank's performance.

Poster summary in Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, pages 1119-1120, Banff, Canada, May 2007.

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