TITLE
Leader-page Resources in  World Wide Web

AUTHORS 
D.Ravi Shankar, Pradeep Beerla and P.Krishna Reddy

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad,
Gachibowli (A.P), India, pin: 500032                  

CONFERENCE
Proceedongs of 12th International Conference on Management of Data 
(COMAD 2005b), December 20-22, Hyderabad, India, 2005. 

Abstract
Ranking the search results is an important research problem in WWW. HITS, PageRank 
and variations of these algorithms are widely used approaches for ranking.  In this 
paper we proposed a new ranking algorithm to rank the search results by introducing 
the concept of "leader-page". The notion of "leader-page" is defined by extending the 
concept of "leader" from leadership theory. In leadership theory, a leader is defined 
as a person, who has more contacts with the other members of the group, both initiates 
and receives communication, and whose characteristics are the most similar to the group's 
own characteristics. Similarly, in WWW, the proposed approach identifies leader-pages and 
assigns "leadership score" to them based on several kinds of cyclic and similarity 
relationships it establishes with other web pages.  Given a set of key words (search query), 
the proposed approach ranks the related pages based on the corresponding "leadership score".  
The experiment results show that the proposed approach gives high leadership score to 
resourceful pages as compared to the results of  the HITS algorithm and the Google search engine.