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We highlight intriguing features of complex networks that are grown by \emph{redirection}. In this mechanism, a target node is chosen uniformly at random from the pre-existing network nodes and the new node attaches either to this initial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-14 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Network science is a powerful framework allowing to model complex systems, it is capable to describe and take into account the intricate web of connections existing among the constituting basic element of the system. Recently scholars have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Diego Febbe , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti

We perform an empirical study of the preferential attachment phenomenon in temporal networks and show that on the Web, networks follow a nonlinear preferential attachment model in which the exponent depends on the type of network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-03-27 Jérôme Kunegis , Marcel Blattner , Christine Moser

Paper proposes a model of large networks based on a random preferential attachment graph with addition of complete subgraphs (cliques). The proposed model refers to models of random graphs following the nonlinear preferential attachment…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-05 E. B. Yudin

The quantum internet is a rapidly developing technological reality, yet, it remains unclear what kind of quantum network structures might emerge. Since indirect quantum communication is already feasible and preserves absolute security of…

Preferential attachment is an appealing edge generating mechanism for modeling social networks. It provides both an intuitive description of network growth and an explanation for the observed power laws in degree distributions. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-21 Phyllis Wan , Tiandong Wang , Richard A. Davis , Sidney I. Resnick

While network science has become an indispensable tool for studying complex systems, the conventional use of pairwise links often shows limitations in describing high-order interactions properly. Hypergraphs, where each edge can connect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-20 Zhao Li , Jing Zhang , Jiqiang Zhang , Guozhong Zheng , Weiran Cai , Li Chen

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 paper analyzes key properties of networks generated by geometric preferential attachment. We establish that the expected number of triangles is proportional to that of the standard preferential attachment model, with a proportionality…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Chenxu Feng , Yifan Li

We study a model for the evolution of chemical species under a combination of population dynamics on a short time scale and a selection mechanism on a longer time scale. Least fit nodes are replaced by new nodes whose links are attached to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Areejit Samal , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Network models are used to study interconnected systems across many physical, biological, and social disciplines. Such models often assume a particular network-generating mechanism, which when fit to data produces estimates of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Ryan E. Langendorf , Matthew G. Burgess

Preferential attachment is an appealing mechanism for modeling power-law behavior of the degree distributions in directed social networks. In this paper, we consider methods for fitting a 5-parameter linear preferential model to network…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-08-29 Phyllis Wan , Tiandong Wang , Richard A. Davis , Sidney I. Resnick

The characterization of the "most connected" nodes in static or slowly evolving complex networks has helped in understanding and predicting the behavior of social, biological, and technological networked systems, including their robustness…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-10-21 Scott A. Hill , Dan Braha

Preferential attachment --- by which new nodes attach to existing nodes with probability proportional to the existing nodes' degree --- has become the standard growth model for scale-free networks, where the asymptotic probability of a node…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-11-12 Michael Small , Yingying Li , Thomas Stemler , Kevin Judd

The network properties of a graph ensemble subject to the constraints imposed by the expected degree sequence are studied. It is found that the linear preferential attachment is a fundamental rule, as it keeps the maximal entropy in sparse…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Xinping Xu , Feng Liu , Lianshou Liu

Inspired by scientific collaboration networks, especially our empirical analysis of the network of econophysicists, an evolutionary model for weighted networks is proposed. Both degree-driven and weight-driven models are considered.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Menghui Li , Jinshan Wu , Dahui Wang , Tao Zhou , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Models based on preferential attachment have had much success in reproducing the power law degree distributions which seem ubiquitous in both natural and engineered systems. Here, rather than assuming preferential attachment, we give an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Berger , C. Borgs , J. T. Chayes , R. M. D'Souza , R. D. Kleinberg

Mechanistic models can provide an intuitive and interpretable explanation of network growth by specifying a set of generative rules. These rules can be defined by domain knowledge about real-world mechanisms governing network growth or may…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Maxwell H Wang , Till Hoffmann , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Preferential attachment models have been widely studied in complex networks, because they can explain the formation of many networks like social networks, citation networks, power grids, and biological networks, to name a few. Motivated by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Sushmita Ruj , Arindam Pal

In previous work I examined an information based complexity measure of networks with weighted links. The measure was compared with that obtained from by randomly shuffling the original network, forming an Erdos-Renyi random network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Russell Standish