A partial knowledge of friends of friends speeds social search

Milgram empirically showed that people knowing only connections to their friends could locate any person in the U.S. in a few steps. Later research showed that social network topology enables a node aware of its full routing to find an arbitrary target in even fewer steps. Yet, the success of people...

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Main Authors: Elsisy, Amr, Szymanski, Boleslaw K., Plum, Jasmine A., Qi, Miao, Pentland, Alex
Other Authors: MIT Connection Science (Research institute)
Format: Article
Published: PLoS ONE 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138869