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Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition
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Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition

by Sukumar Ghosh
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
17h 49m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 21

Social and Peer-to-Peer Networks

21.1 Introduction to Social Networks

A social network depicts a social structure. It is commonly represented by a graph where the nodes are entities, and edges denote a relationship between a pair of entities. Some examples of entities are persons, organizations, various forms of living beings, web pages, cities, and airports. When nodes represent people, an edge may denote a friendship relation between them. When nodes are web pages, an edge from page x to page y may represent the existence of a link from the former to the latter page. When nodes denote businesses, an edge may denote the existence of a business relationship between two businesses. A social network like Facebook® or Twitter® is a modern ...

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