[Colloq] Talk, Monday- April 2, Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Research

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium

Presents:
Ravi Kumar
Yahoo! Research

Who will speak on:
“Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks”

Monday, April 2, 2007
12:00 pm
366 West Village H
Northeastern University


Abstract:
Online social networks have become major and driving phenomena on the web.

In this talk we focus on the properties of two large online social 
networks, namely, the LiveJournal network of friends and the Flickr 
network of contacts. In the context of LiveJournal, we formulate a 
simple and general model of social networks that can explain the success 
of Milgram's famous experiment that gave rise to 'six-degrees of 
separation'. In the context of Flickr, we focus on the temporal 
evolution of social networks from a graph-structure point of view.

Host: Ravi Sundaram