Efficient hyperlink analysis using robust Proportionate Prestige Score in PageRank algorithm

Abstract

Existing PageRank algorithm exploits the Hyperlink Structure of the web with uniform transition probability distribution to measure the relative importance of web pages. This paper proposes a novel method namely Proportionate Prestige Score (PPS) for prestige analysis. This proposed PPS method is purely based on the exact prestige of web pages, which is applicable to Initial Probability Distribution (IPD) matrix and Transition Probability Distribution (TPD) matrix. This proposed PPS method computes the single PageRank vector with non-uniform transition probability distribution, using the link structure of the web pages offline. This non-uniform transition probability distribution has efficiently overcome the dangling page problem than the existing PageRank algorithm. This paper provides benchmark analysis of ranking methods: PageRank and proposed PPS. These methods are tested with real social network data from three different domains: Social Circle:Facebook, Wikipedia vote network and Enron email network. The findings of this research work propose that the quality of the ranking has improved by using the proposed PPS method compared with the existing PageRank algorithm.