Graphs over time: Densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 177-187

  Leskovec, Jure ^a   Kleinberg, Jon ^b   Faloutsos, Christos ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Densification power laws; Graph generators; Graph mining; Heavy tailed distributions; Small world phenomena

Indexed keywords

DENSIFICATION POWER LAWS; GRAPH GENERATORS; GRAPH MINING; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS; SMALL-WORLD PHENOMENA;

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; DATA MINING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 32344436210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1081870.1081893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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