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Readings:

Watts DJ, and SH Strogatz. "Collective Dynamics of 'small-World' Networks." Nature. 393. 6684 (1998): 440-2. (Nature subscription required for article)
Travers, Jeffrey & Stanley Milgram. 1969. "An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem." Sociometry, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 425-443.
MEJN, Section 6: The Small World Model

Resources:

Lecture

Small world networks PowerPoint Download PDF Download (.ppt, .pdf)

Lab

small world graphs PDF Download (pdf)
gnutella (from Clip2 DSS) Pajek file (.net)

Assignment

Problem Set 4 Doc Download PDF Download (.doc, .pdf)
gnutella (from Clip2 DSS) Pajek file (.net)
poliblog GUESS file (.gdf)

Demonstration:

Small world networks and random graphs