“Remembering what we like: Toward an agent-based model of Web traffic” by Bruno Gonçalves & Mark R. Meiss (Indiana University) and José J. Ramasco (CNLL, ISI foundation, Turin) is a paper due to be presented at WSDM 2009. The PageRank model is “Markovian” meaning tha[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Random surfer’
October 10th, 2008 - 1:23 am § in Uncategorized
The Random surfer becomes the Cautious surfer
An interesting paper: “Incorporating Trust into Web Search” written by Lan Nie Baoning Wu and Brian D. Davison from Lehigh University. This paper deals with the issue of spam, generated by pages being engineered to deceive the search engines. They say that ranking systems should ta[...]
