Poster Title:

A Cautious Surfer for PageRank

Authors:

• Lan Nie (Lehigh University)
• Baoning Wu (Lehigh University)
• Brian Davison (Lehigh University)

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.