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 (Author), Szymanski, Boleslaw K. (Author), Plum, Jasmine A. (Author), Qi, Miao (Author), Pentland, Alex (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PLoS ONE, 2022-01-10T20:07:44Z.
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