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
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.
PACS: 89.75.-k – Complex systems
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2005