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Popularity is attractive -- this is the formula underlying preferential attachment, a popular explanation for the emergence of scaling in growing networks. If new connections are made preferentially to more popular nodes, then the resulting…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-19 Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Maksim Kitsak , M. Angeles Serrano , Marian Boguna , Dmitri Krioukov

Based on the empirical analysis of the dependency network in 18 Java projects, we develop a novel model of network growth which considers both: an attachment mechanism and the addition of new nodes with a heterogeneous distribution of their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Claudio J. Tessone , Markus M. Geipel , F. Schweitzer

We investigate a network model based on an infinite regular square lattice embedded in the Euclidean plane where the node connection probability is given by the geometrical distance of nodes. We show that the degree distribution in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-23 Matus Medo , Jan Smrek

Modeling networks can serve as a means of summarizing high-dimensional complex systems. Adapting an approach devised for dense, weighted networks, we propose a new method for generating and estimating unweighted networks. This approach can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-12 Benjamin Leinwand , Vince Lyzinski

The analysis in this paper helps to explain the formation of growing networks with degree distributions that follow extended exponential or power-law tails. We present a generic model in which edge dynamics are driven by a continuous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-12 Jan Medina-López , Jorge Finke

Ever since the Barab\'{a}si-Albert (BA) scale-free network has been proposed, network modeling has been studied intensively in light of the network growth and the preferential attachment (PA). However, numerous real systems are featured…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuhan Li , Minyu Feng , Jürgen Kurths

We investigate the degree sequences of geometric preferential attachment graphs in general compact metric spaces. We show that, under certain conditions on the attractiveness function, the behaviour of the degree sequence is similar to that…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Jonathan Jordan

Reciprocity, or the tendency of individuals to mirror behavior, is a key measure that describes information exchange in a social network. Users in social networks tend to engage in different levels of reciprocal behavior. Differences in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-22 Daniel Cirkovic , Tiandong Wang

We provide a local probabilistic description of the limiting statistics of large preferential attachment trees in terms of the ordinary degree (number of neighbors) but augmented with information on leafdegree (number of neighbors that are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Harrison Hartle , P. L. Krapivsky

Generated networks are widely used in network-based research as a convenient simulation environment. Generating universal networks that more accurately reflect real-world patterns is a cornerstone task. This study proposes a vari-linear…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-27 Jinhu Ren , Linyuan Lü

Preferential attachment, homophily and, their consequences such as the glass ceiling effect have been well-studied in the context of undirected networks. However, the lack of an intuitive, theoretically tractable model of a directed,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Buddhika Nettasinghe , Nazanin Alipourfard , Vikram Krishnamurthy , Kristina Lerman

Preferential attachment (PA) network models have a wide range of applications in various scientific disciplines. Efficient generation of large-scale PA networks helps uncover their structural properties and facilitate the development of…

Computation · Statistics 2023-10-18 Yelie Yuan , Tiandong Wang , Jun Yan , Panpan Zhang

In this paper, we characterise the notion of preferential attachment in networks as action at a distance, and argue that it can only be an emergent phenomenon -- the actual mechanism by which networks grow always being the closing of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jérôme Kunegis , Fariba Karimi , Jun Sun

Considerable attention has been paid, in recent years, to the use of networks in modeling complex real-world systems. Among the many dynamical processes involving networks, propagation processes -- in which final state can be obtained by…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-06 Antoine Allard , Pierre-André Noël , Louis J. Dubé , Babak Pourbohloul

Network models with preferential attachment, where new nodes are injected into the network and form links with existing nodes proportional to their current connectivity, have been well studied for some time. Extensions have been introduced…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-26 James P. Bagrow , Dirk Brockmann

This article describes a complex network model whose weights are proportional to the difference between uniformly distributed ``fitness'' values assigned to the nodes. It is shown both analytically and experimentally that the strength…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luciano da Fontoura Costa , Gonzalo Travieso

We introduce a new family of models for growing networks. In these networks new edges are attached preferentially to vertices with higher number of connections, and new vertices are created by already existing ones, inheriting part of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. N. Dorogovtsev , A. N. Samukhin , J. F. F. Mendes

Many real-world scale-free networks, such as neural networks and online communication networks, consist of a fixed number of nodes but exhibit dynamic edge fluctuations. However, traditional models frequently overlook scenarios where the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yichao Yao , Minyu Feng , Matjaž Perc , Jürgen Kurths

We propose a model of network growth in which the network is co-evolving together with the dynamics of a quantum mechanical system, namely a quantum walk taking place over the network. The model naturally generalizes the Barab\'{a}si-Albert…

The concept of 'complexity' plays a central role in complex network science. Traditionally, this term has been taken to express heterogeneity of the node degrees of a therefore complex network. However, given that the degree distribution is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-01 Éverton F. da Cunha , Luciano da F. Costa