Small World Models in Linked Documents: Decomposition and Visualisation

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the ability to build small world network models with linked documents in form of web pages and generated via software engineering processes. It shows that searchable paths are achievable between two entities in the models by using the algorithms of searching the related web pages. Visualization of the models is presented and the results confirm that the small world network models can be decomposed into sub-models which are in turn small world models. The findings enable the construction of the small world network models to be governed easily by a documentation process and the paths within the models to be established by searching the related web pages.