Local affinity in heterogeneous growing networks

A. Santiago and R.M. Benito

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, issue 14, 2941-2948

Abstract: In this paper we present a study of the influence of local affinity in heterogeneous preferential attachment (PA) networks. Heterogeneous PA models are a generalization of the Barabási–Albert model to heterogeneous networks, where the affinity between nodes biases the attachment probability of links. Threshold models are a class of heterogeneous PA models where the affinity between nodes is inversely related to the distance between their states. We propose a generalization of threshold models where network nodes have individual affinity functions, which are then combined to yield the affinity of each potential interaction. We analyze the influence of the affinity functions in the topological properties averaged over a network ensemble. The network topology is evaluated through the distributions of connectivity degrees, clustering coefficients and geodesic distances. We show that the relaxation of the criterion of a single global affinity still leads to a reasonable power-law scaling in the connectivity and clustering distributions under a wide spectrum of assumptions. We also show that the richer behavior of the model often exhibits a better agreement with the empirical observations on real networks.

Keywords: Heterogeneous networks; Preferential attachment; Local affinity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.03.039

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