Properties of asymmetrically evolved community networks

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2009-02-12
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Thispaperstudiesasimpleasymmetricallyevolvedcommunitynetworkwithacombinationofpreferentialattachmentandrandomproperties.Animportantissueaboutcommunitynetworksistodiscoverthedifferentutilityincrementsoftwonodes,wheretheutilityisintroducedtoinvestigatetheasymmetricaleffectofconnectingtwonodes.Ontheotherhand,theconnectionoftwonodesincommunitynetworkscanbeclassifiedastwonodesbelongingtothesameortodifferentcommunities.Thesimulationresultsshowthatthemodelcanreproduceapower-lawutilitydistributionP(u)~uσ,σ=2+1p,whichcanbeobtainedbyusingmean-fieldapproximationmethods.Furthermore,themodelexhibitsexponentialbehaviourwithrespecttosmallvaluesofaparameterdenotingtherandomeffectinourmodelatthelow-utilityregionandapower-lawfeaturewithrespecttobigvaluesofthisparameteratthehigh-utilityregion,whichisingoodagreementwiththeoreticalanalysis.Thiskindofcommunitynetworkcanreproduceauniqueutilitydistributionbytheoreticalandnumericalanalysis.