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I’m really rather proud of this paper, so I’m going to put it on here.
Please download and read Small-worlds: Beyond Social Networks.
This paper marks my beginnings as a research scientist. It’s the first paper I’ve submitted to a journal. It’s not much, but it’s a beginning.
So here’s the abstract:
Small-world phenomena were initially studied in the 1960s through a series of social network experiments, and are, as evidenced by the game “The six degrees of Kevin Bacon”, even part of our pop-culture. Recently, mathematicians and physicists have shown that most small-world phenomena are expected consequences of the mathematical properties of certain networks—known as small-world networks}. In this paper, we survey some of recent mathematical developments dealing with small-world networks, as well as present a new small-world network model and discuss some new ideas for decentralized searching. The goal is to give the reader a sense of the importance of small-world networks, and some of the useful applications dealing with these networks.
The paper is written in clear English. Not too technical. My recommendation for anyone interested in math or computer science is to read it, but ignore any math in the paper. If you really want to know the probabilities given, read that part again and look up the cited paper.
So here’s the download link again. I warn you, it’s a big PDF document, weighing in at just over a meg in size. Oh and I metion this now, because I just finished updating my professional site. Gots to get ready for the grad school application season.
Ooooh, reading material for when I'm done with homework! :D
Your professional site rocks the hut. Nicely done.
Thanks Kim. Heh, I'll send you some "reading material." The paper I'm almost finished with is written at a much higher level... I'll throw it up here when it's done. Although I don't even expect my computer science major friends to get that one.
But this paper, I think it's an enjoyable read (as long as you skip at math symbols). Complex networks are interesting! But external-memory DFS, etc usually aren't.
you've got some nice landscape shots here. and the clean layout is very appealing.
andy you be the pusher man. Pushing the crazy math. :-)
hey buddy, i finally saw that you are no longer stateside, and that makes me sad. what makes me angry, however, is the fact that we were supposed to go together and drink good beer and start a porn site. well, i've got the beer thing covered, but where are you with the porn?whoa, sorry about that. drop me a line and let me know how things are going, but with more information than you left on this site. deep information. like how them dutch honeys are treating you.