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Putting the pieces of the puzzle together, we find that real networks are governed by two laws: growth and preferential attachment.
Jennifer Frangos • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Despite their diversity most real networks share an essential feature: growth.
Jennifer Frangos • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
But the engine that makes these hubs or superstars is preferential attachment—success breeds success.
Albert-László Barabási • The Formula
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
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Power laws rarely emerge in systems completely dominated by a roll of the dice. Physicists have learned that most often they signal a transition from disorder to order. Thus the power laws we spotted on the Web
Jennifer Frangos • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Incremental network growth
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Clustering is indeed present in social systems.
Jennifer Frangos • Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
centrality of that actor within a network.