Scale-free characteristics of random networks: The topology of the world-wide web

Albert László Barabási, Réka Albert, Hawoong Jeong

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

The world-wide web forms a large directed graph, whose vertices are documents and edges are links pointing from one document to another. Here we demonstrate that despite its apparent random character, the topology of this graph has a number of universal scale-free characteristics. We introduce a model that leads to a scale-free network, capturing in a minimal fashion the self-organization processes governing the world-wide web.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)69-77
Number of pages9
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume281
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jun 2000
Externally publishedYes

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