A Monte Carlo model for networks between professionals and society

Henning Frydenlund Hansen and Alex Hansen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 377, issue 2, 698-708

Abstract: We propose a network model with a fixed number of nodes and links and with a dynamic which favors links between nodes differing in connectivity. We observe a phase transition and parameter regimes with degree distributions following power laws, P(k)∼k-γ, with γ ranging from 0.2 to 0.5, small-world properties, with a network diameter following D(N)∼logN and relative high clustering, following C(N)∼1/N and C(k)∼k-α, with α close to 3. We compare our results with data from real-world protein interaction networks.

Keywords: Protein networks; Social systems; Network model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.11.064

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