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Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection

  • Bianconi, Ginestra Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Laureti, Paolo Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Yu, Yi-Kou National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA - Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA
  • Zhang, Yi-Cheng Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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    27.10.2003
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  • Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. - 2004, vol. 332, p. 519-532
English Is visitors’ attendance a fair indicator of a web site's quality? Internet sub-domains are usually characterized by power-law distributions of visits, thus suggesting a rich-get-richer process. If this is the case, the number of visits is not a relevant measure of quality. If, on the other hand, there are active players, i.e., visitors who can tell the value of the information available, better sites start getting richer after a crossover time.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Physique
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  • English
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Physics
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