Journal article

Temporal effects in the growth of networks

    01.12.2011
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  • Physical Review Letters. - 2011, vol. 107, no. 23, p. 238701
English We show that to explain the growth of the citation network by preferential attachment (PA), one has to accept that individual nodes exhibit heterogeneous fitness values that decay with time. While previous PA-based models assumed either heterogeneity or decay in isolation, we propose a simple analytically treatable model that combines these two factors. Depending on the input assumptions, the resulting degree distribution shows an exponential, log-normal or power-law decay, which makes the model an apt candidate for modeling a wide range of real systems.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Département de Physique
Language
  • English
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Physics
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