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Evolution of Networks: From Biological Nets to the Internet and WWW

S.N. Dorogovtsev and J.F.F. Mendes

Print publication date: 2003

Print ISBN-13: 9780198515906

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198515906.001.0001

NON-EQUILIBRIUM NETWORKS

Chapter:
(p. 112 ) 5 NON-EQUILIBRIUM NETWORKS
Source:
Evolution of Networks
Author(s):

S. N. Dorogovtsev

J. F. F. Mendes

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198515906.003.0006

This chapter describes in detail the preferential attachment mechanism. It starts with growing networks with exponential degree distributions, and then considers structural characteristics of basic scale-free growing networks. Complex network architectures generated by various types of preferential attachment are described.

Keywords:   preferential attachment, scaling, scale-free networks, condensation in networks, growing networks, exponential degree distribution

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