TY  - JOUR
ID  - eprints2842
VL  - 107
JF  - Physical Review Letters
UR  - http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238701
Y1  - 2011/12//
TI  - Temporal Effects in the Growth of Networks
AV  - public
N2  - 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.
SN  - 0031-9007
PB  - American Physical Society
A1  - Medo, Matú?
A1  - Cimini, Giulio
A1  - Gualdi, Stanislao
ER  -