Emergence of scaling in random networks Export

@misc{citeulike:80544, abstract = {Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. 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. 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.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo and Albert, Reka}, citeulike-article-id = {80544}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9910332}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/9910332}, day = {21}, eprint = {cond-mat/9910332}, keywords = {networktheory}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2007-07-16 19:50:24}, priority = {4}, title = {Emergence of scaling in random networks}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9910332}, year = {1999} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:80544 L3 - citeulike-article-id:80544 N2 - Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. 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. 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. TI - Emergence of scaling in random networks KW - networktheory AU - Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo AU - Albert, Reka PY - 1999/10/21/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9910332 ER -