A formal treatment of generalized preferential attachment and its empirical validation Export

@article{Herdagdelen2007, abstract = {Generalized preferential attachment is defined as the tendency of a vertex to acquire new links in the future with respect to a particular vertex property. Understanding which properties influence the link acquisition tendency (LAT) gives us a predictive power to estimate the future growth of network and insight about the actual dynamics governing the complex networks. In this study, we explore the effect of age and degree on LAT by analyzing data collected from a new complex-network growth dataset. We found that LAT and degree of a vertex are linearly correlated in accordance with previous studies. Interestingly, the relation between LAT and age of a vertex is found to be in conflict with the known models of network growth. We identified three different periods in the network's lifetime where the relation between age and LAT is strongly positive, almost stationary and negative correspondingly.}, author = {Herdagdelen, A. and Aygun, E. and Bingol, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {4509974}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/60007}, doi = {10.1209/0295-5075/78/60007}, journal = {EPL (Europhysics Letters)}, keywords = {complex-networks, eksi-sozluk, emergence, preferential, preferential-attachment}, number = {6}, pages = {60007+}, posted-at = {2009-05-13 13:26:40}, priority = {0}, title = {A formal treatment of generalized preferential attachment and its empirical validation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/60007}, volume = {78}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Herdagdelen2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4509974 N2 - Generalized preferential attachment is defined as the tendency of a vertex to acquire new links in the future with respect to a particular vertex property. Understanding which properties influence the link acquisition tendency (LAT) gives us a predictive power to estimate the future growth of network and insight about the actual dynamics governing the complex networks. In this study, we explore the effect of age and degree on LAT by analyzing data collected from a new complex-network growth dataset. We found that LAT and degree of a vertex are linearly correlated in accordance with previous studies. Interestingly, the relation between LAT and age of a vertex is found to be in conflict with the known models of network growth. We identified three different periods in the network's lifetime where the relation between age and LAT is strongly positive, almost stationary and negative correspondingly. IS - 6 JF - EPL (Europhysics Letters) TI - A formal treatment of generalized preferential attachment and its empirical validation VL - 78 SP - 60007 KW - complex-networks KW - eksi-sozluk KW - emergence KW - preferential KW - preferential-attachment AU - Herdagdelen, A AU - Aygun, E AU - Bingol, H PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/60007 ER -