From this fact, it would seem that the small-world networks are not self-similar under a length-scale transformation.

It has been suggested that intelligence could be characterized as a small-world network.

But it was not entirely clear why these should all be "small-world" networks.

Is society a small-world network of the sort Milgram was interested in?

Several other properties are often associated with small-world networks.

One possibility is that small-world networks are more robust to perturbations than other network architectures.

The seismic network in the Southern California region may be a small-world network.

A small-world network of neurons can exhibit short-term memory.

It is shared with many other types of networks called small-world networks.

It may be useful to compare the shortcut model with the small-world network, since the definitions have a lot of similarity.