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The World Wide Web has taken the form of a social network and if analyzed carefully, we can extract various communities from this network based on different parameters such as culture, trust, behavior, relationships, etc. The Small World Effect is a kind of behavior that has been discovered in entity networks of many natural phenomena. The set of nodes in a network showing Small World Effect form a local network within the major network highlighting the properties of a Small World Network. This work analyzes three different web networks, i.e. Term-Term similarity network, Document-Document similarity network, and Hyperlinks network, to check whether they show Small World Network behavior or not. We define a criterion and then compare these network graphs against that criterion. The network graph which fulfills that criterion is declared to be a Small World Network.
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Missen, M.M.S., Boughanem, M., Gaume, B. (2008). The Small World of Web Network Graphs. In: Hussain, D.M.A., Rajput, A.Q.K., Chowdhry, B.S., Gee, Q. (eds) Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems. IMTIC 2008. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89853-5_16
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