Stochastic Diffusion Search Explination (basic)
Algorithmic Explination ofSDS
Mathmatical Proof
Stochastic Diffusion Search is a process which allows for the testing of a “hypothesis” or to acquire information from a social network. Individual “agents” are used to break down the problem and gather what has been labeled “partial evaluations” of the “hypothesis.” Through the process “agents” and […]

Social networking websites would seem to be the perfect venue for conducting a “Six Degrees of Separation” experiment over a large population. The advantages are that the networks involved are very explicit, and that as long as a large, popular network was used, there would be tremendous amounts of data accessible to the experimenters.
Early on […]

The following article discusses the random nature of movie success in the industry as it exists today:link to article. Academics have slowly come to realize that the heads of film studios who make the decisions on what films to “green light” do no better than an ape throwing darts at a board would […]

http://smallworld.columbia.edu/index.html
In class we discussed Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment that attempted to test the small-world hypothesis. Although his experiment lead to the coining of the famous phrase “Six degrees of separation,” we also mentioned that his results were not particularly compelling for several reasons (e.g. Targets were people […]

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/public/wsj_software.html
I recently came across an interesting article called “Six Degrees of Exploitation? — New Programs Help Companies `Mine’ Workers’ Relationships For Key Business Prospects”. It is a Wall Street Journal article written by William M. Burkeley and Wailin Wong in August of 2003. Clearly, the article is quite old in technology years and is […]

A friend recently sent me a link to The Six Degrees of Wikipedia, an online tool that finds the shortest path between any two articles on Wikipedia using links in that article. While certainly an addicting little procrastination tool (seriously, try to “beat” it), it is interesting to consider this in the context of […]

http://www.springerlink.com/content/4fjgx8c7m92nqe05/fulltext.pdf
Recent class discussion has focused on the idea that the social network of the world can be modeled as a “small world” in which any two individuals are connected by a surprisingly short path. The notion of “six degrees of separation” presented by Stanley Melgram’s famous experiment (as discussed in class) provides strong support […]

This article looks at an online social network, Club Nexus, at Stanford and explores how the profile personality of each member affects overall network properties.  It uses this online network to study and verify existing theories about social networks.   
 
First, it is established that there is a difference between the online social network and the […]

Forgot the link. Sorry
http://www.uaf.edu/northern/big_world.html 

Forgot the link. Sorry
http://www.uaf.edu/northern/big_world.html