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Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv)

Albert-László Barabási, Réka Albert · 21 Oct 1999 · arxiv.org

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Networks keep growing by adding sites that link more often to the already well-linked ones, producing the same uneven connection pattern seen across many real systems. This shows the pattern comes from shared growth habits rather than the details of any one system. It offers a model of continuous expansion plus preference for popular sites that matches the distributions seen in real networks.

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  1. Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology.
  2. Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology.
  3. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution.
  4. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution.
  5. This feature is found to be a consequence of the two generic mechanisms that networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and new vertices attach preferentially to already well connected sites.
  6. This feature is found to be a consequence of the two generic mechanisms that networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and new vertices attach preferentially to already well connected sites.
  7. A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.
  8. A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.