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

Bianconi, Ginestra; Laureti, Paolo; Yu, Yi-Kou; Zhang, Yi-Cheng

doi:10.1016/j.physa.2003.10.005

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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

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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