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Now we can explain the three important areas of Figure 8.18: “outsiders” are the
vertices in the disconnected components, and responsible for the rst peak and the
negative slope to the dip. “Core” are the central vertices with the smallest radii from
the giant connected component. “Whiskers” [33] are the vertices connected to the
GCC with long paths.
8.6.4.3 Radius Plot of GCC
Figure 8.16b shows that all vertices of the GCC of the YahooWeb graph have radius
6 or more except for google.com that has radius one.
8.6.4.4 “Core” and “Whisker” Vertices
Figure 8.21 shows the radius–degree plot of Patent, YahooWeb, and Lin ...