no code implementations • 19 Nov 2011 • Lars Backstrom, Paolo Boldi, Marco Rosa, Johan Ugander, Sebastiano Vigna
It is not completely clear whether the selected individual is part of the five, so this could actually allude to distance five or six in the language of graph theory, but the "six degrees of separation" phrase stuck after John Guare's 1990 eponymous play.
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no code implementations • 25 Nov 2010 • Paolo Boldi, Marco Rosa, Sebastiano Vigna
Recently, the ANF algorithm (approximate neighbourhood function) has been proposed with the purpose of approximating NG(t) on large graphs.
Data Structures and Algorithms Social and Information Networks Physics and Society