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| Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andrew Tomkins, "The Web and Social Networks," Computer, vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 32-36, November, 2002. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/MC.2002.1046971, author = {Ravi Kumar and Prabhakar Raghavan and Sridhar Rajagopalan and Andrew Tomkins}, title = {The Web and Social Networks}, journal ={Computer}, volume = {35}, number = {11}, issn = {0018-9162}, year = {2002}, pages = {32-36}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2002.1046971}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - MGZN JO - Computer TI - The Web and Social Networks IS - 11 SN - 0018-9162 SP32 EP36 EPD - 32-36 A1 - Ravi Kumar, A1 - Prabhakar Raghavan, A1 - Sridhar Rajagopalan, A1 - Andrew Tomkins, PY - 2002 VL - 35 JA - Computer ER - | |||
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