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Effective trapping of random walkers in complex networks
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea.
Summary
Random walks on the web reveal how search engines access information. A random surfer may get trapped on popular pages (hubs), necessitating strategies like random jumps for efficient information retrieval.
Area of Science:
- Information Science
- Network Analysis
- Web Dynamics
Background:
- Exploring the World Wide Web is crucial for information science.
- PageRank-like algorithms in search engines are vital for web navigation.
- The random walk approach models user behavior on the web.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the probability of return to the origin (RTO) for random walks on the web.
- To understand how RTO relates to information accessibility for web surfers.
- To investigate the impact of node degree on RTO and surfer behavior.
Main Methods:
- Analytical investigation of random walk probabilities.
- Mathematical modeling of web graph structures.
- Analysis of the crossover behavior in RTO decay.
Main Results:
- RTO probability exhibits a crossover from slow to fast decay over time.
- Crossover time increases with the starting node's degree.
- Near-constant RTO in the early-time regime for high-degree nodes (degree exponent approaching two).
Conclusions:
- High-degree nodes (hubs) can trap random surfers.
- The findings support the necessity of random jump strategies in search engines like Google.
- Understanding random walk dynamics is key to optimizing web information access.
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