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Title: Emergence of scaling in random networks
Author: Albert-László Barabási and Réka Albert
Journal: Science
Volume: 286
Pages: 509--512
Year: 1999
Abstract: Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the World Wide Web are best described as networks with complex topology. A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution. This feature was found to be a consequence of two generic mechanisms: (i) networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and (ii) new vertices attach preferentially to sites that are already well connected. A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, which indicates that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.

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@Article{barabasi99a,
  author =	 {Albert-L\'{a}szl\'{o} Barab\'{a}si and R\'{e}ka
                  Albert},
  title =	 {Emergence of scaling in random networks},
  journal =	 {Science},
  year =	 1999,
  volume =	 286,
  pages =	 {509--512},
  abstract =	 {Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the World
                  Wide Web are best described as networks with complex
                  topology. A common property of many large networks
                  is that the vertex connectivities follow a
                  scale-free power-law distribution. This feature was
                  found to be a consequence of two generic mechanisms:
                  (i) networks expand continuously by the addition of
                  new vertices, and (ii) new vertices attach
                  preferentially to sites that are already well
                  connected. A model based on these two ingredients
                  reproduces the observed stationary scale-free
                  distributions, which indicates that the development
                  of large networks is governed by robust
                  self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the
                  particulars of the individual systems.},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/barabasi99a.pdf},
  cluster = 	 {656670982446636554},
  keywords = 	 {social complexity networks}
}
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