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World-Wide Web scaling exponent from Simon's 1955 model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Recently, statistical properties of the World-Wide Web have attracted considerable attention when self-similar regimes have been observed in the scaling of its link structure. Here we recall a classical model for general scaling phenomena and argue that it offers an explanation for the World-Wide Web's scaling exponent when combined with a recent measurement of internet growth.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0008465,
  title  = {World-Wide Web scaling exponent from Simon's 1955 model},
  author = {Stefan Bornholdt and Holger Ebel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0008465},
  year   = {2009}
}

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