Failure in Complex Social Networks

Details Failure in Complex Social Networks Failure in Complex Social Networks

2007-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702120v1

Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 33: 64-68, 2009

Physics

Physics and Society

2 pages, 1 figure (3 panels)

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Tolerance against failures and errors is an important feature of many complex networked systems [1,2]. It has been shown that a class of inhomogeneously wired networks called scale-free[1,3] networks can be surprisingly robust to failures, suggesting that socially self-organized systems such as the World-Wide Web, the Internet, and other kinds of social networks [4] may have significant tolerance against failures by virtue of their scale-free degree distribution. I show that this finding only holds on the assumption that the diffusion process supported by the network is a simple one, requiring only a single contact in order for transmission to be successful.

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