A scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, at least asymptotically. That is, the fraction P(k) of nodes in the network...

a hub. If there were such a threshold, the network would not be scale-free. Interest in scale-free networks began in the late 1990s with the reporting...

of networks.: 27  While hubs cannot be observed in a random network, they are expected to emerge in scale-free networks. The uprise of hubs in scale-free...

Barabási–Albert (BA) model is an algorithm for generating random scale-free networks using a preferential attachment mechanism. Several natural and human-made...

Scale-free may refer to: Scale-free ideal gas Scale-free network This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Scale-free. If an internal...

Network science – Academic field - mathematical theory of networks Scale-free network – Network whose degree distribution follows a power law Six degrees...

micro-networks, allowing models to be built from theoretical structural foundations of social behavior. Scale-free networks: A scale-free network is a...

of the gamma exponent for a scale-free network, we can draw a couple of important conclusions regarding scale-free network robustness. f c = 1 − 1 κ −...

different network topologies, leading to the term 'network science'. Albert-László Barabási and Reka Albert discovered the scale-free networks nature of...

A scale-free network is a type of networks that is of particular interest of network science. It is characterized by its degree distribution following...

as scalable, because one warehouse can handle only a limited number of packages. In computing, scalability is a characteristic of computers, networks, algorithms...

the algorithm can build three types of networks: a star network, a random network, and a scale-free network. Optimization mechanism is thought to be...

Hierarchical network models are iterative algorithms for creating networks which are able to reproduce the unique properties of the scale-free topology and...

further development of the field in network science. Many real networks have two fundamental properties, scale-free property and small-world property....

objects Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Networks, a graph with attributes studied in network theory Scale-free network, a...

in this limit, the gradient network of random network is scale-free. Furthermore, if the substrate network G is scale-free, like in the Barabási–Albert...

communication network Butterfly network Computer network diagram Gradient network Internet topology Network simulation Relay network Rhizome (philosophy) Scale-free...

to refer to. A network is said to be scalable if its performance does not deteriorate even if the network is very large. The scalability of Freenet is...

discovered the concept of scale-free networks and proposed the Barabási–Albert model, which explains the widespread emergence of such networks in natural, technological...

grid structure could be identified from the complex network perspective (e.g., single-scale, scale-free). This classification might help the electric power...

documented forms of scientific collaboration. It is an undirected, scale-free network where the degree distribution follows a power law with an exponential...

then preferential attachment leads to a scale-free network. If this probability is sub-linear then the network’s degree distribution is stretched exponential...

recognition via the scale-invariant feature transform. Invariant (mathematics) Inverse square potential Power law Scale-free network Jørgensen, B. (1997)...

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produce scale-free networks. This was accomplished by incorporating preferential attachment and growth, where nodes are added to the network over time...

enough edges between them to maintain the neutrality of the network. In a scale-free network the degree distribution is described by a power law with characteristic...

In economics, a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user...

hierarchical regulatory regime. Thus gene regulatory networks approximate a hierarchical scale free network topology. This is consistent with the view that...

has many links. This clustering is characteristic of the modular scale free network that Christianity formed. In the case of early Christianity, as the...