Small Worlds: The Structure of Social Networks

Experimentally it has been found that any two people in the world, chosen at random, are connected to one another by a short chain of intermediate acquaintances, of typical lenth about six. This phenomenon, colloquially referred to as the "six degrees of separation", has been the subject of a considerable amount of recent research and modeling, which we review here.

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Year of publication:	1999-12
Authors:	Newman, Mark
Institutions:	Santa Fe Institute
Subject:	Small worlds \| social networks \| review

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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