OPTIMIZATION OF HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES OF INFORMATION FLOW

D. Stauffer and P. M. C. de OLIVEIRA
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D. Stauffer: Laboratoire PMMH, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75231 Paris, France
P. M. C. de OLIVEIRA: Laboratoire PMMH, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, 10 rue Vauquelin, F-75231 Paris, France

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2006, vol. 17, issue 09, 1367-1372

Abstract: The efficiency of a large hierarchical organisation is simulated on Barabási–Albert networks, when each needed link leads to a loss of information. The optimum is found at a finite network size, corresponding to about five hierarchical layers, provided a cost for building the network is included in our optimization.

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; scale-free networks; hospitals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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