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Could any Graph be Turned into a Small-World?

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Distributed Computing (DISC 2005)

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In the last decade, effective measurements of real interaction networks have revealed specific unexpected properties. Among these, most of these networks present a very small diameter and a high clustering. Furthermore, very short paths can be effciently found between any pair of nodes without global knowledge of the network (i.e., in a decentralized manner) which is known as the small-world phenomenon [1]. Several models have been proposed to explain this phenomenon [2,3]. However, Kleinberg showed in [4] that these models lack the essential navigability property: in spite of a polylogarithmic diameter, decentralized routing requires the visit of a polynomial number of nodes in these models.

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  1. LABRI, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

    Philippe Duchon & Nicolas Hanusse

  2. LIP, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France

    Emmanuelle Lebhar & Nicolas Schabanel

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Duchon, P., Hanusse, N., Lebhar, E., Schabanel, N. (2005). Could any Graph be Turned into a Small-World?. In: Fraigniaud, P. (eds) Distributed Computing. DISC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3724. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11561927_46

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