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We deal with a general preferential attachment graph model with multiple type edges. The types are chosen randomly, in a way that depends on the evolution of the graph. In the $N$-type case, we define the (generalized) degree of a given…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Ágnes Backhausz , Bence Rozner

Preferential attachment is often suggested to be the underlying mechanism of the growth of a network, largely due to that many real networks are, to a certain extent, scale-free. However, such attribution is usually made under debatable…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-16 Clement Lee

We analyze the growth models for complex networks including preferential attachment (A.-L. Barabasi and R. Albert, Science 286, 509 (1999)) and fitness model (Caldarelli et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 258702 (2002)) and demonstrate that,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-20 Michael Golosovsky

Real-world networks tend to be scale free, having heavy-tailed degree distributions with more hubs than predicted by classical random graph generation methods. Preferential attachment and growth are the most commonly accepted mechanisms…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Josh Johnston , Tim Andersen

We propose and study a model of scale-free growing networks that gives a degree distribution dominated by a power-law behavior with a model-dependent, hence tunable, exponent. The model represents a hybrid of the growing networks based on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Y. Lee , H. Y. Chan , P. M. Hui

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

Many complex natural and physical systems exhibit patterns of interconnection that conform, approximately, to a network structure referred to as scale-free. Preferential attachment is one of many algorithms that have been introduced to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-18 Linjun Zhang , Michael Small , Kevin Judd

In this article, we propose a growing network model based on an optimal policy involving both topological and geographical measures. In this model, at each time step, a new node, having randomly assigned coordinates in a $1 \times 1$…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Yan-Bo Xie , Tao Zhou , Wen-Jie Bai , Guanrong Chen , Wei-Ke Xiao , Bing-Hong Wang

Many realistic networks are scale-free, with small characteristic path lengths, high clustering, and power law in their degree distribution. They can be obtained by dynamical networks in which a preferential attachment process takes place.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-13 Francesco Caravelli , Alioscia Hamma , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We propose and study a model of weighted scale-free networks incorporating a stochastic scheme for weight assignments to the links, taking into account both the popularity and fitness of a node. As the network grows the weights of links are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dafang Zheng , Steffen Trimper , Bo Zheng , P. M. Hui

In this study we introduce and analyze the statistical structural properties of a model of growing networks which may be relevant to social networks. At each step a new node is added which selects 'k' possible partners from the existing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Laszlo Zalanyi , Gabor Csardi , Tamas Kiss , Mate Lengyel , Rebecca Warner , Jan Tobochnik , Peter Erdi

In this paper, we present a simple model of scale-free networks that incorporates both preferential & random attachment and anti-preferential & random deletion at each time step. We derive the degree distribution analytically and show that…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Dinghua Shi , Xiang Zhu , Liming Liu

Identifying power-law scaling in real networks - indicative of preferential attachment - has proved controversial. Critics argue that measuring the temporal evolution of a network directly is better than measuring the degree distribution…

Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics applies satisfactorily to a plethora of systems. It fails however for complex systems generically involving strong space-time entanglement. Its generalization based on nonadditive $q$-entropies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-15 R. M. de Oliveira , Samuraí Brito , L. R. da Silva , Constantino Tsallis

A version of ``preferential attachment'' random graphs, corresponding to linear ``weights'' with random ``edge additions,'' which generalizes some previously considered models, is studied. This graph model is embedded in a continuous-time…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. B. Athreya , A. P. Ghosh , S. Sethuraman

A new mechanism leading to scale-free networks is proposed in this letter. It is shown that in many cases of interest, the connectivity power-law behavior is neither related to dynamical properties nor to preferential attachment. Instead,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Caldarelli , A. Capocci , P. De Los Rios , M. A. Munoz

In this paper we present a generalized model for network growth that links the microscopical agent strategies with the large scale behavior. This model is intended to reproduce the largest number of features of the Internet network at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guido Caldarelli , Paolo De Los Rios , Luciano Pietronero

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…

We investigate a growing network model that combines preferential and uniform attachment with two distinct mechanisms of edge deletion. In addition to the usual uniform probability edge deletion, we introduce a novel node-based rule in…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-24 Everton R. Constantino , Alberto Saa

A network is scale-free if its connectivity density function is proportional to a power-law distribution. Scale-free networks may provide an explanation for the robustness observed in certain physical and biological phenomena, since the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-03 Peter Clote