Aggregation kinetics of popularity

S. Redner

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 306, issue C, 402-411

Abstract: The tools of aggregation kinetics are applied to the “popularity” phenomena of single-lane traffic clustering, and to the growth of a network that mimics citations of scientific publications. In the latter, the network is built by introducing papers (new nodes) one at a time, with preferential linking to more popular previously existing nodes. From the rate equations, the distribution of node degree, as well as various global properties, can be determined easily. A simple extension of the model appears to describe the degree distributions of the world-wide web.

Keywords: Traffic clustering; Citation distribution; Growing networks; Degree distribution; Rate equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)00518-6

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