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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Duncan J Watts |
| ISBN: | 0691005419 9780691005416 |
| OCLC Number: | 40602717 |
| Description: | xv, 262 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Kevin Bacon, the Small World, and Why It All Matters -- Structure -- Social Networks and the Small World -- A Brief History of the Small World -- Difficulties with the Real World -- Reframing the Question to Consider All Worlds -- Background on the Theory of Graphs -- Basic Definitions -- Length and Length Scaling -- Neighbourhoods and Distribution Sequences -- Clustering -- "Lattice Graphs" and Random Graphs -- Dimension and Embedding of Graphs -- Big Worlds and Small Worlds: Models of Graphs -- Relational Graphs -- [alpha]-Graphs -- A Stripped-Down Model: [beta]-Graphs -- Shortcuts and Contractions: Model Invariance -- Lies, Damned Lies, and (More) Statistics -- Spatial Graphs -- Uniform Spatial Graphs -- Gaussian Spatial Graphs -- Main Points in Review -- Explanations and Ruminations -- Going to Extremes -- The Connected-Caveman World -- Moore Graphs as Approximate Random Graphs -- Transitions in Relational Graphs -- Local and Global Length Scales -- Length and Length Scaling -- Clustering Coefficient -- Contractions -- Results and Comparisons with [beta]-Model -- Transitions in Spatial Graphs -- Spatial Length versus Graph Length -- Length and Length Scaling -- Clustering -- Results and Comparisons -- Variations on Spatial and Relational Graphs -- Main Points in Review -- "It's a Small World after All": Three Real Graphs -- Making Bacon -- Examining the Graph -- Comparisons -- The Power of Networks -- Examining the System -- Comparisons -- A Worm's Eye View -- Examining the System -- Comparisons -- Other Systems. |
| Series Title: | Princeton studies in complexity. |
| Responsibility: | Duncan J. Watts. |
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