Eur. Phys. J. B 43, 369-372 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2005-00065-y

Self organized scale-free networks from merging and regeneration

¹ Department of Molecular Science and Technology, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Korea
² Department of Physics, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden
³ NORDITA, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

Corresponding author: ^a trusina@tp.umu.se

Received: 16 June 2004
Revised: 23 November 2004
Published online: 15 March 2005

Abstract

We propose that the ubiquitous scale free nature of many real world networks may emerge from a steady state process where nodes are created and merged randomly. The merging may be viewed as an optimization of efficiency by minimizing redundancy.