README file for Sequential Page Rank****

9/10/2012

CONTENTS OF PACKAGE 1_Project1P1:

The package contains four files, -pagerank.java : The source code for the project -pagerank.class : The executable class file built from the same code -README.txt : The README file to describe how to run rank.class -Group1_Report.docx : The technical report for the project -pagerank_output.txt : The output file that contains the top 10 ranking url numbers for 10 iterations with input file pagerank.input.1000.9

TO RUN THE PROGRAM:

The project can be executed by directly running the executable rank.class file in command line. The command line arguments have to be given in the following order :

java [input file name] [output file name] [number of iterations] [damping factor]

NOTE: -Ensure that the number of iterations given is a positive integer or 0. If number of iterations is zero, the program will calculate the PageRank values till the values converge. -The damping factor should be a number between 0 and 1.

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