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Small-World Phenomena and the Dynamics of Information
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Introduction The problem of searching for information in networks like the World Wide Web can be approached in a variety of ways, ranging from centralized indexing schemes to decentralized mechanisms that navigate the underlying network without knowledge of its global structure. The decentralized approach appears in a variety of settings: in the behavior of users browsing the Web by following hyperlinks; in the design of focused crawlers [4, 5, 8] and other agents that explore the Web's links to gather information; and in the search protocols underlying decentralized peer-to-peer systems such as Gnutella [10], Freenet [7], and recent research prototypes [21, 22, 23], through which users can share resources without a central server. In recent work, we have been investigating the problem of decentralized search in large information networks [14, 15]. Our initial motivation was an experiment that dealt directly with the search problem in a decidedly pre-Internet context: Stanley Milgram
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- Authors
- Kleinberg, J.
- Venue
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2002-11-08
- Pages
- 431-438
- OpenAlex
- W2164195254
- Cited by
- 382
- References
- 24
- FWCI
- 40.43
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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