Research Article

A Network Sampling Strategy Inspired by Epidemic Spreading

Table 1

Basic statistics of real-world networks used in this paper.

NetworkCategoryNodesEdgesFillAvg. degreeGlobal clust. (%)Assortativity

PowerGridInfrastructure494165942.66910.300.003 46
AmazonMiscellaneous334 863925 8725.53020.50
WordNetLexical146 005656 9999.0009.58
AstroPhCoauthorship18 771198 05021.10231.800.205 13
LivemochaSocial104 1032193 08342.1331.41
GowallaSocial196 591950 3279.6682.35
BrightkiteSocial58 228214 0787.35311.100.010 82
DoubanSocial154 908327 1624.2241.04
FlickrMiscellaneous105 9382316 94843.74240.200.246 85