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Borrowing from concepts in expander graphs, we study the expansion properties of real-world, complex networks (e.g. social networks, unstructured peer-to-peer or P2P networks) and...
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Today, bibliographical information is kept in a variety of data sources world wide, some of them publically available, and some of them also offering information about citations m...