Emergence of a small world from local interactions: Modeling acquaintance networks

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2001-08-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0108302v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2002) 128701

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages RevTeX, 2 figures PostScript

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.128701

How does one make acquaintances? A simple observation from everyday experience is that often one of our acquaintances introduces us to one of his acquaintances. Such a simple triangle interaction may be viewed as the basis of the evolution of many social networks. Here, it is demonstrated that this assumption is sufficient to reproduce major non-trivial features of social networks: Short path length, high clustering, and scale-free or exponential link distributions.

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