Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
2015-06-26 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Physics and Society
Abstract
Is visitors' attendance a fair indicator of a web site's quality? Internet sub-domains are usually characterized by power law distributions of visits, thus suggesting a richer-get-richer process. If this is the case, the number of visits is not a relevant measure of quality. If, on the other hand, there are active players, i.e. visitors who can tell the value of the information available, better sites start getting richer after a crossover time.
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@article{arxiv.nlin/0309045,
title = {Ecology of active and passive players and their impact on information selection},
author = {G. Bianconi and P. Laureti and Y. -K. Yu and Y. -C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0309045},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication on Phisica A