This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
—Ranking plays important roles in contemporary Internet and vertical search engines. Among existing ranking algorithms, link analysis based algorithms have been proved as effecti...
Abstract. The importance of a node in a directed graph can be measured by its PageRank. The PageRank of a node is used in a number of application contexts
— This paper investigates measures of centrality that are applicable to power grids. Centrality measures are used in network science to rank the relative importance of nodes and ...
Blog evaluation and ranking became increasingly important over the last decade. Given the large number of blogs on the web today the currently used approach of blog ranking by pop...