Albatross sampling: Robust and effective hybrid vertex sampling for social graphs

MobiSys'11 - Compilation Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services and Co-located Workshops - HotPlanet'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 11-16

  Jin, Long ^a   Chen, Yang ^b   Hui, Pan ^c   Ding, Cong ^b   Wang, Tianyi ^a   Vasilakos, Athanasios V ^d   Deng, Beixing ^a   Li, Xing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

convergence time; degree distribution; graph sampling; jump strategy; metropolis hasting algorithm; online social networks; random walk

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE TIME; DEGREE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAPH SAMPLING; JUMP STRATEGY; METROPOLIS-HASTING ALGORITHM; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; RANDOM WALK;

BUDGET CONTROL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 79961079154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2000172.2000178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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