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rev_number: 8
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type: article
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creators_name: Capocci, Andrea
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Marchetti, Riccardo
creators_name: Pietronero, Luciano
creators_id: 
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: Growing dynamics of Internet providers
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
keywords: PACS: 87.23.Ge, 02.10.-v, 05.40.-a, 05.70.Jk

abstract: In this paper we present a model for the growth and evolution of Internet providers. The model reproduces the data observed for the Internet connection as probed by tracing routes from different computers. This problem represents a paramount case of study for growth processes in general, but can also help in the understanding the properties of the Internet. Our main result is that this network can be reproduced by a self-organized interaction between users and providers that can rearrange in time. This model can then be considered as a prototype model for the class of phenomena of aggregation processes in social networks.
date: 2001-08
publication: Physical Review E
volume: 64
number: 3
publisher: American Physical Society
id_number: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.035105
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1539-3755
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.64.035105
related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106084v1
citation:   Capocci, Andrea and Caldarelli, Guido and Marchetti, Riccardo and Pietronero, Luciano  Growing dynamics of Internet providers.  Physical Review E, 64 (3).   ISSN 1539-3755      (2001)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1145/1/Capocci_Caldarelli_Marchetti_Pietronero_2001.pdf