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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Fraigniaud, Pierre Giakkoupis, George |
| Abstract | Revisiting the "small-world" experiments of the '60s, Kleinberg observed that individuals are very effective at constructing short chains of acquaintances between any two people, and he proposed a mathematical model of this phenomenon. In this model, individuals are the nodes of a base graph, the square grid, capturing the underlying structure of the social network; and this base graph is augmented with additional edges from each node to a few long-range contacts of this node, chosen according to some natural distance-based distribution. In this augmented graph, a greedy search algorithm takes only a polylogarithmic number of steps in the graph size. Following this work, several papers investigated the correlations between underlying structure and long-range connections that yield efficient decentralized search, generalizing Kleinberg's results to broad classes of underlying structures, such as metrics of bounded doubling dimension, and minor-excluding graphs. We focus on the case of arbitrary base graphs. We show that for a simple long-range contact distribution consistent with empirical observations on social networks, a slight variation of greedy search, where the next hop is to a distant node only if it yields sufficient progress towards the target, requires $n^{o(1)}$ steps, where \$n\$ is the number of nodes. Precisely, the expected number of steps for any source-target pair is at most 2(log $n)^{1/2+o(1)}}.$ This bound almost matches the best known lower bound of Ω(2√log n) steps, which applies to a general class of search algorithms. In the context of social networks, our result could be interpreted as: individuals may well be able to construct short chains between people regardless of the underlying structure of the social network. |
| Starting Page | 389 |
| Ending Page | 398 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| ISBN | 9781450300506 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1806689.1806744 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2010-06-05 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Decentralized search Social networks Small worlds |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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