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ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages A1-A69Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/1132952.1132954
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algorithms; measurement; generators; graphs; patterns; social networks
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How does the Web look? How could we tell an abnormal social network from a normal one? These and similar questions are important in many fields where the data can intuitively be cast as a graph; examples range from computer networks to sociology to biology and many more. Indeed, any M : N relation in database terminology can be represented as a graph. A lot of these questions boil down to the following: How can we generate synthetic but realistic graphs? To answer this, we must first understand what patterns are common in real-world graphs and can thus be considered a mark of normality/realism. This survey give an overview of the incredible variety of work that has been done on these problems. One of our main contributions is the integration of points of view from physics, mathematics, sociology, and computer science. Further, we briefly describe recent advances on some related and interesting graph problems.
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