Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Program to Find Patterns in Social Networks.
Actually the paper title is: COSI: Cloud Oriented Subgraph Identification in Massive Social Networks
Either way, this looks important for topic map fans.
How important?
The authors:
show our framework works efficiently, answering many complex queries over a 778M edge real-world SN dataset derived from Flickr, LiveJournal, and Orkut in under one second.
That important!
If you think about topic maps less as hand curated XML syntax artifacts and more as interactively and probabilistically created mappings into complex subject spaces then the importance of this research becomes even clearer.