Effects of Preference for Attachment to Low-degree Nodes on the Degree Distributions of a Growing Directed Network and a Simple Food-Web Model
| dc.creator | Sevim, Volkan | |
| dc.creator | Rikvold, Per Arne | |
| dc.date | 2005-10-27 | |
| dc.date | 2006-03-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:45:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:45:37Z | |
| dc.description | We study the growth of a directed network, in which the growth is constrained by the cost of adding links to the existing nodes. We propose a new preferential-attachment scheme, in which a new node attaches to an existing node i with probability proportional to 1/k_i, where k_i is the number of outgoing links at i. We calculate the degree distribution for the outgoing links in the asymptotic regime (t->infinity), both analytically and by Monte Carlo simulations. The distribution decays like k c^k/Gamma(k) for large k, where c is a constant. We investigate the effect of this preferential-attachment scheme, by comparing the results to an equivalent growth model with a degree-independent probability of attachment, which gives an exponential outdegree distribution. Also, we relate this mechanism to simple food-web models by implementing it in the cascade model. We show that the low-degree preferential-attachment mechanism breaks the symmetry between in- and outdegree distributions in the cascade model. It also causes a faster decay in the tails of the outdegree distributions for both our network growth model and the cascade model. | |
| dc.description | 10 pages, 7 figures. A new figure added. Minor modifications made in the text | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510763 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0510763 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys. Rev. E 73, 056115 (2006) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.73.056115 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/103094 | |
| dc.subject | Statistical Mechanics | |
| dc.subject | Populations and Evolution | |
| dc.title | Effects of Preference for Attachment to Low-degree Nodes on the Degree Distributions of a Growing Directed Network and a Simple Food-Web Model | |
| dc.type | text |