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  SNAP : Stanford Network Analysis Platform
	http://snap.stanford.edu
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Stanford Network Analysis Platform (SNAP) is a general purpose, high
performance system for analysis and manipulation of large networks.
SNAP is written in C++ and it scales to massive graphs with billions
of nodes and tens of billions of edges.

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Directory structure: http://snap.stanford.edu/snap/description.html

  snap-core: 
        the core SNAP graph library
  snap-adv: 
        advanced SNAP components, not in the core, but used by examples
  snap-exp:
        experimental SNAP components, still in development
  examples:
        small sample applications that demonstrate SNAP functionality
  tutorials:
        simple programs, demonstrating use of various classes
  glib-core: 
        STL-like library that implements basic data structures, like vectors
        (TVec), hash-tables (THash) and strings (TStr), provides
        serialization and so on
  test:
        unit tests for various classes
  doxygen:
        SNAP reference manuals

Code compiles under Windows (Microsoft Visual Studio, CygWin with gcc) and
Linux and Mac (gcc). Use the SnapExamples.vcproj or provided makefiles.

Some of applications expect that GnuPlot and GraphViz are installed and
accessible -- paths are in the system PATH variable or they reside in the
working directory.

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Example applications: http://snap.stanford.edu/snap/description.html

Execute:
  cd examples
  make all  : compiles all sample applications
  make clean: cleans up all the examples directories
  
Examples:
  agmgen :
        Implements the Affiliation Graph Model (AGM). AGM generates a
        realistic looking graph from the community affiliation of the nodes.
  cascades :
        Simulates a SI (susceptible-infected) model on a network and computes
        structural properties of cascades.
  centrality :
        Computes node centrality measures for a graph: closeness, eigen,
        degree, betweenness, page rank, hubs and authorities.
  cliques :
        Finds overlapping dense groups of nodes in networks, based on
        the Clique Percolation Method.
  community :
        Implements network community detection algorithms: Girvan-Newman and
        Clauset-Newman-Moore.
  concomp :
        Computes weakly, strongly and biconnected connected components,
        articulation points and bridge edges of a graph.
  forestfire : 
        Generates graphs using the Forest Fire model.
  graphgen : 
        Generates undirected graphs using one of the many SNAP graph generators.
  kcores :
        Plots the number of nodes in a k-core of a graph as a function of k.
  kronem : 
        Estimates Kronecker graph parameter matrix using EM algorithm.
  kronfit : 
        Estimates Kronecker graph parameter matrix.
  krongen :
        Generates Kronecker graphs.
  magfit : 
        Estimates Multiplicative Attribute Graph (MAG) model parameter.
  maggen : 
        Generates Multiplicative Attribute Graphs (MAG).
  mkdatasets :
        Demonstrates how to load different kinds of networks in various
        network formats and how to compute various statistics of the network.
  motifs : 
        Counts the number of occurence of every possible subgraph on K nodes 
        in the network.
  ncpplot : 
        Plots the Network Community Profile (NCP).
  netevol :
        Computes properties of an evolving network, like evolution of 
        diameter, densification power law, degree distribution, etc.
  netstat :
        Computes structural properties of a static network, like degree
        distribution, hop plot, clustering coefficient, distribution of sizes
        of connected components, spectral properties of graph adjacency
        matrix, etc.
  testgraph :
        Demonstrates some of the basic SNAP functionality.

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SNAP Introduction: http://snap.stanford.edu/snap/doc.html

The library defines Graphs (nodes and edges) and Networks (graph with data
associated with nodes and edges).

Graph types:
  TNGraph : 
  	directed graph (single directed edge between a pair of nodes)
  TNEGraph : 
  	directed multi-graph (any number of directed edges between a pair of
	nodes)
  TUNGraph : 
  	undirected graph (single undirected edge between a pair of nodes)

Network types:
  TNodeNet<TNodeData> : 
  	like TNGraph but with TNodeData object for each node
  TNodeEdgeNet<TNodeData, TEdgeData> : 
  	like TNEGraph but with TNodeData object for each node and TEdgeData
	object for each edge
  TBigNet<TNodeData> : 
  	memory efficient implementation of TNodeNet (avoids memory
	fragmentation)

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SNAP files: http://snap.stanford.edu/snap/description.html

snap-core:
  alg.h : Simple algorithms like counting node degrees, simple graph
        manipulation (adding/deleting self edges, deleting isolated nodes)
        and testing whether graph is a tree or a star.
  anf.h : Approximate Neighborhood Function: linear time algorithm to
        approximately calculate the diameter of massive graphs.
  bfsdfs.h : Algorithms based on Breath First Search (BFS) and Depth First
        Search (DFS): shortest paths, spanning trees, graph diameter, and
        similar.
  bignet.h : Memory efficient implementation of a network with data on
        nodes. Use when working with very large networks.
  centr.h : Node centrality measures: closeness, betweenness, PageRank, ...
  cmty.h : Algorithms for network community detection: Modularity,
        Girvan-Newman, Clauset-Newman-Moore.
  cncom.h : Connected components: weakly, strongly and biconnected
        components, articular nodes and bridge edges.
  ff.h : Forest Fire model for generating networks that densify and have
        shrinking diameters.
  gbase.h : Defines flags that are used to identify functionality of graphs.
  ggen.h : Various graph generators: random graphs, copying model,
        preferential attachment, RMAT, configuration model, Small world model.
  ghash.h : Hash table with directed graphs (<tt>TNGraph</tt>) as keys. Uses
        efficient adaptive approximate graph isomorphism testing to scale to
        large graphs. Useful when one wants to count frequencies of various
        small subgraphs or cascades.
  gio.h : Graph input output. Methods for loading and saving various textual
        and XML based graph formats: Pajek, ORA, DynNet, GraphML (GML), 
        Matlab.
  graph.h : Implements graph types TUNGraph, TNGraph and TNEGraph.
  gstat.h : Computes many structural properties of static and evolving networks.
  gsvd.h : Eigen and singular value decomposition of graph adjacency matrix.
  gviz.h : Interface to GraphViz for plotting small graphs.
  kcore.h : K-core decomposition of networks.
  network.h : Implements network types TNodeNet, TNodeEDatNet and TNodeEdgeNet.
  Snap.h : Main include file of the library.
  statplot.h : Plots of various structural network properties: clustering,
        degrees, diameter, spectrum, connected components.
  subgraph.h : Extracting subgraphs and converting between different
        graph/network types.
  timenet.h : Temporally evolving networks.
  triad.h : Functions for counting triads (triples of connected nodes in the
        network) and computing clustering coefficient.
  util.h : Utilities to manipulate PDFs, CDFs and CCDFs. Quick and dirty
        string manipulation, URL and domain manipulation routines.

snap-adv:
  agm.h : Implements the Affiliation Graph Model (AGM).
  cliques.h : Maximal clique detection and Clique Percolation method.
  graphcounter.h : Performs fast graph isomorphism testing to count the
        frequency of topologically distinct sub-graphs.
  kronecker.h : Kronecker Graph generator and KronFit algorithm for
        estimating parameters of Kronecker graphs.
  mag.h : Implements the Multiplicative Attribute Graph (MAG).
  ncp.h : Network community profile plot. Implements local spectral graph
        partitioning method to efficiently find communities in networks.
  subgraphenum.h : Enumerates all connected induced sub-graphs of particular
        size.

snap-exp:
  arxiv.h : Functions for parsing Arxiv data and standardizing author names.
  dblp.h : Parser for XML dump of DBLP data.
  imdbnet.h : Actors-to-movies bipartite network of IMDB.
  mxdag.h  Finds the maximum directed-acyclic subgraph of a given
        directed graph.
  signnet.h : Networks with signed (+1, -1) edges that can denote
        trust/distrust between the nodes of the network.
  sir.h : SIR epidemic model and SIR parameter estimation.
  spinn3r.h : Past parser for loading blog post data from Spinn3r.
  trawling.h : Algorithm of extracting bipartite cliques from the network.
  wgtnet.h : Weighted networks.
  wikinet.h : Networks based on Wikipedia.

