AHPA-Calculating Hub and Authority for Information Retrieval

Abstract

The fast development of the World Wide Web makes searching and retrieving of information to become a not easy task. Two algorithms proposed around the fall of 1996, Page Rank [3] and HITS [9], became the center of majority research efforts. They try to remedy the abundance of results, bringing order with the help of notions related to prestige in social network analysis. Some approaches use the link structure of the web to find the importance of the web pages (Page Rank method [3]) or to determine their authority related to a particular topic (Hub and Authority concept). In this paper we propose a new method for calculating the authority of a web page.