relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2842/
title: Temporal Effects in the Growth of Networks
creator: Medo, Matúš
creator: Cimini, Giulio
creator: Gualdi, Stanislao
subject: H Social Sciences (General)
subject: QA Mathematics
description: We show that to explain the growth of the citation network by preferential attachment (PA), one has to accept that individual nodes exhibit heterogeneous fitness values that decay with time. While previous PA-based models assumed either heterogeneity or decay in isolation, we propose a simple analytically treatable model that combines these two factors. Depending on the input assumptions, the resulting degree distribution shows an exponential, log-normal or power-law decay, which makes the model an apt candidate for modeling a wide range of real systems.
publisher: American Physical Society
date: 2011-12
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2842/1/1109.5560v1.pdf
identifier:   Medo, Matúš and Cimini, Giulio and Gualdi, Stanislao  Temporal Effects in the Growth of Networks.  Physical Review Letters, 107.  p. 238701.  ISSN 0031-9007      (2011)  
relation: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238701
relation: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238701