Survey of Quantification and Distance Functions Used for Internet-based Weak-link Sociological Phenomena

Abstract

The PI studied all mathematical literature he can find related to the Google search engine, Google matrix, PageRank as well as the Yahoo search engine and a classic SearchKing HIST algorithm. The co-PI immersed herself in the sociology literature for the relevant studies on social network, strong and weak social ties and measures of centrality, etc. which will be useful for the study of search algorithms. Our findings are summarized in three separate manuscripts attached.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1009762

Entities

People

  • Dawn T. Robinson
  • Ming-jun Lai

Organizations

  • University of Georgia Research Foundation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Complex Systems
  • Computations
  • Eigenvalues
  • Electronic Mail
  • Engineering
  • Internet
  • Iterations
  • Markov Chains
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Networks
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Online Communications
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Social Environment
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Societies
  • Sociology
  • Theorems
  • United States

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