A partial knowledge of friends of friends speeds social search

• Amr Elsisy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amr Elsisy, Boleslaw K. Szymanski

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Network Science and Technology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

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• Boleslaw K. Szymanski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amr Elsisy, Boleslaw K. Szymanski

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: szymab@rpi.edu

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Network Science and Technology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0307-6743

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• Jasmine A. Plum,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Network Science and Technology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

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• Miao Qi,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America, Network Science and Technology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

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• Alex Pentland

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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