TY - JOUR IS - 3-4 KW - PACS: 89.75.Hc Networks and genealogical trees - 05.65.+b Self-organized systems A1 - Caldarelli, Guido A1 - Capocci, Andrea A1 - Garlaschelli, Diego UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00243-5 JF - The European Physical Journal B Y1 - 2008/// VL - 64 ID - eprints1092 EP - 591 SP - 585 TI - A self-organized model for network evolution N2 - Here we provide a detailed analysis, along with some extensions and additonal investigations, of a recently proposed [1] self-organized model for the evolution of complex networks. Vertices of the network are characterized by a fitness variable evolving through an extremal dynamics process, as in the Bak-Sneppen [2] model representing a prototype of Self-Organized Criticality. The network topology is in turn shaped by the fitness variable itself, as in the fitness network model [3]. The system self-organizes to a nontrivial state, characterized by a power-law decay of dynamical and topological quantities above a critical threshold. The interplay between topology and dynamics in the system is the key ingredient leading to an unexpected behaviour of these quantities. AV - none SN - 1434-6028 ER -