Generalized scale-free homophilic network
Abstract
We propose a simple network growth process where the preferential attachment contains two essential parameters: homophily, namely, the tendency of sites to link with similar ones, and the number of attaching neighbors. It jointly generalizes the Barabási-Albert model and the scale-free homophilic model with a control parameter which tunes the importance of the homophily on preferential attachment process. Our results support a detailed discussion about different kinds of correlation, in special a fitness correlation introduced in this paper, and comparisons between BA model, scale-free homophilic model, and our present model considering its topological properties: degree distribution, time dependence of the connectivity and clustering coefficient.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics C
- Pub Date:
- February 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0129183115500977
- Bibcode:
- 2015IJMPC..2650097D
- Keywords:
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- Complex networks;
- power-laws;
- preferential attachment;
- correlations;
- 89.75.-k;
- 64.60.aq;
- 02.70.-c;
- Complex systems;
- Networks;
- Computational techniques;
- simulations