Emergence of a Small World from Local Interactions: Modeling Acquaintance Networks

by: Jörn Davidsen, Holger Ebel, Stefan Bornholdt

Physical Review Letters, Vol. 88, No. 12. (March 2002), 128701.

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Abstract

How do we make acquaintances? A simple observation from everyday experience is that often one of our acquaintances introduces us to one of his or her acquaintances. Such a simple triangle interaction may be viewed as the basis of the evolution of many social networks. Here; it is demonstrated that this assumption is sufficient to reproduce major nontrivial features of social networks: short path length; high clustering; and scale-free or exponential link distributions.

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