small-world networks

A form of small-world network — A kind of graph in which most nodes are not neighbors but most can be reached from every other by a small number of steps, i.e. the typical distance between two randomly chosen nodes grows proportionally to the logarithm of the number of nodes in the network.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of small-world network
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