摘要 |
Methods and apparatus for determining recommended geographic server locations for online social networks by attempting to minimize user-server latency and inter-user communications latency. In an embodiment, geographic and relationship information for a plurality of users is acquired. The plurality of users may belong to one or more networks. The acquired information is transformed into a graph. A first plurality of clusters is generated with a first clustering algorithm. A second plurality of clusters is generated by iteratively examining pairs of the first plurality clusters, and swapping nodes between the examined clusters if it will reduce a total cut weight of the graph and locate each pair of nodes within a defined maximum distance from the centroid of the target cluster. In an embodiment, a method uses a joint analysis approach based upon characteristics of a plurality of existing networks. |