small-worldness

English

Noun

small-worldness (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics) The property of being a small-world network.
    • 2009, Mihaela Ulieru, Peter Palensky, RenĂ© Doursat, IT Revolution: First International ICST Conference, page 92:
      A paper by Watts and his thesis advisor Steve Strogatz, largely free of mathematics, set ablaze huge interest in the phenomenon of small-worldness with its architectural fingerprints being found in diverse fields as ecosystems, natural language and the World Wide Web.
    • 2012, Issues in Neuroscience Research and Application: 2011 Edition, page 2353:
      Topologically, functional brain networks had reduced clustering and small-worldness, reduced probability of high-degree hubs, and increased robustness in the schizophrenic group.
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