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Title:
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FRIENDS NETWORK |
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Author(s):
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Maytham Safar , Haya Bin Ghaith |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-19-4 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Inmaculada J. Martínez |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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V II, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Virtual Communities, Ubiquitous Computing, Small World, Scale-free Network, Social Networks. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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143 |
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Last Page:
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146 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Most human communications take place directly between individuals. With the advances in the Internet and communications technology, it became vital to analyze the effect of such technology on human communications. This work studies how humans can construct social networks as a method for group communications using the available technology. The spread of news and rumors all take place by contact between individuals. Rumors or news can spread far faster over a network in which the average degree of separation is low, than it can over a network in which the average degree of separation is high. In this work we construct and analyze a friends network. The parameters that were calculated to analyze the network are the distribution sequence, characteristic path length, clustering coefficient and centrality measures. |
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