TY - JOUR SN - 0031-9007 N1 - © 2002 American Physical Society AV - public TI - Scale-Free networks from varying vertex intrinsic fitness N2 - 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. Assigning a quenched fitness value xi to every vertex, and drawing links among vertices with a probability depending on the fitnesses of the two involved sites, gives rise to what we call a good-get-richer mechanism, in which sites with larger fitness are more likely to become hubs (i.e., to be highly connected). ID - eprints1137 VL - 89 PB - American Physical Society JF - Physical Review Letters UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.258702 A1 - Caldarelli, Guido A1 - Capocci, Andrea A1 - De Los Rios, Paolo A1 - Muñoz, Miguel A. Y1 - 2002/12// KW - PACS: 89.75.Hc KW - 89.75.Da IS - 25 ER -