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2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Small world peer networks in distributed web search
In ongoing research, a collaborative peer network application is being proposed to address the scalability limitations of centralized search engines. Here we introduce a local ada...
Ruj Akavipat, Le-Shin Wu, Filippo Menczer
MOBIHOC
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Hybrid sensor networks: a small world
In this paper, we investigate the use of limited infrastructure, in the form of wires, for improving the energy efficiency of a wireless sensor network. We call such a sensor netw...
Gaurav Sharma, Ravi Mazumdar
TKDE
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A Virtual Ring Method for Building Small-World Structured P2P Overlays
This paper presents a general virtual ring method to design and analyze small-world structured P2P networks on the base es embedded in ID spaces with distance metric. Its basic ide...
Hai Zhuge, Xiaoping Sun
ECSCW
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Common Ground and Small Group Interaction in Large Virtual World Gatherings
Virtual worlds can allow conversational participants to achieve common ground in situations where the information volume and need for clarification is low. We argue in favor of thi...
N. Sadat Shami, Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Social search in "Small-World" experiments
The "algorithmic small-world hypothesis" states that not only are pairs of individuals in a large social network connected by short paths, but that ordinary individuals ...
Sharad Goel, Roby Muhamad, Duncan J. Watts