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
Published in:
- 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.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
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- English
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- Physics
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- RERO DOC 4310
- DOI 10.1016/j.physa.2003.10.005
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- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/299621
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