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Ranking Systems: The PageRank Axioms Alon Altman Moshe Tennenholtz Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Management Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Haifa 32000, Israel Haifa 32000, Israel alon@vipe.technion.ac.il moshet@ie.technion.ac.il ABSTRACT page ranking systems. It is well known that page ranking This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking is fundamental for search technology, as well as for other systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and applications. A major problem therefore is the study of Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence the rationale of using a particular page ranking algorithm. What are the properties of a particular page ranking algo- and the exact rationale of page ranking algorithms we sug- gest the axiomatic approach taken in the formal theory of rithm that characterize and differentiate it from other page social choice. In this paper we deal with PageRank, the ranking algorithms? In order to address this challenge we most famous page ranking algorithm. We present a set of introduce and adapt the axiomatic ap