A partial knowledge of friends of friends speeds social search

<jats:p>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 suc...

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Main Authors: Elsisy, Amr, Szymanski, Boleslaw K, Plum, Jasmine A, Qi, Miao, Pentland, Alex
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146590