Authors: Melucci, M; Pretto, L; Dept Informat Engn; Dept Informat Engn; As PageRank is a ranking algorithm, it is of prime interest to study the order induced by its values on webpages. In this paper a thorough mathematical analysis of PageRank-induced order changes when the damping factor varies is provided. Conditions that do not allow variations in the order are studied, and the mechanisms that make the order change are mathematically investigated. Moreover the influence on the order of a truncation in the actual computation of PageRank through a power series is analysed. Experiments carried out on a large Web digraph to integrate the mathematical analysis show that PageRank - while working on a real digraph -tends to hinder variations in the order of large rankings, presenting a high stability in its induced order both in the face of large variations of the damping factor value and in the face of truncations in its computation. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007. Melucci; Pretto

Journal: English

Conference: European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR)

Publisher: Rome, ita

Published: title_year

DOI: WOS:000246044300051

Issue: 4425, Pages: +-PageRank: When order changes