Scale-Free Networks

Posted: December 14th, 2005 | No Comments »

In his course on Web Characteristics and his project on the Characteristics of the Web of Spain, Vicente Lopez talked about the properties of scale-free/power law networks that are common in social networks. These networks also exhibit the Small world phenomenon, in which two average nodes are separated by a very small number of connections (The Six Degrees of Duncan Watts, Properties of the Kevin Bacon Absorbing Set, Small World Project at Columbia University).