eprintid: 2842
rev_number: 8
eprint_status: archive
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dir: disk0/00/00/28/42
datestamp: 2015-11-06 11:07:28
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Medo, Matúš
creators_name: Cimini, Giulio
creators_name: Gualdi, Stanislao
creators_id: 
creators_id: giulio.cimini@imtlucca.it
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title: Temporal Effects in the Growth of Networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: H1
subjects: QA
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: public
abstract: 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.
date: 2011-12
date_type: published
publication: Physical Review Letters
volume: 107
publisher: American Physical Society
pagerange: 238701
id_number: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238701
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0031-9007
official_url: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.238701
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2842/1/1109.5560v1.pdf