Search results for "Small World Networks"
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Facebook as a Small World: a topological hypothesis
2011
Facebook is becoming a pervasive entity as its social, cultural and media ramifications grow deep and entrenched in our daily life. Its nature of a complex system of interactions, bearing a strong similarity to networks built through individual choices and systems shaped by evolu- tionary pressure, makes it an interesting target for research. Scale-free Small World networks, recently popularized by Barabasi, are a topological class pertaining to both these domains, whose members have resilience to disruption and short intermediate connections between nodes. In this paper we show that the topological structure of a specific subset of Facebook, gathered using data from a self-report online qu…
Un'analisi preliminare della rete sociale di StackExchange
2016
Stack Exchange è una rete di siti web a domanda e risposta (Q&A), o gnuno dei quali ricopre un particolare argomento. Domande, risposte e utenti sono soggetti ad un processo di voti di reputazione che permette ai suddetti siti di auto moderarsi.