小世界现象和分散式搜索

by Yan

一个参考文献,关于社会网络与计算机网络。英文原文

But Milgram’s experiment really led to two striking discoveries, of which the existence of short paths was only the first. The second was that people in society, with knowledge of only their own personal acquaintances, were collectively able to forward the letter to a distant target so quickly. Viewed in computational terms, this is a statement about the power of a routing algorithm, equipped with purely local information, to find efficient paths to a destination; that such a decentralized routing scheme is effective says something striking about the underlying social network.

奇迹文库上有中文翻译,但是没有原文清晰,似乎容易让人误解。