Competition and multiscaling in evolving networks

The rate at which nodes in a network increase their connectivity depends on their fitness to compete for links. For example, in social networks some individuals acquire more social links than others, or on the www some webpages attract considerably more links than others. We find that this competition for links translates into multiscaling, i.e. a fitness-dependent dynamic exponent, allowing fitter nodes to overcome the more connected but less fit ones. Uncovering this fitter-gets-richer phenomenon can help us understand in quantitative terms the evolution of many competitive systems in nature and society.

• Publication year

  2000

• Venue

  EPL (Europhysics Letters)

• Publication date

  2000-11-02

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1209/epl/i2001-00260-6arXiv cond-mat/0011029
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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