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An Empirical Validation of Growth Models for Complex Networks

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This chapter is focused towards the empirical validation of generation of powerlaw networks. Empirical growth data from four different networks (the Flickr and the YouTube online social networks, Wikipedia’s content graph, and the Internet’s AS-level graph) are used to show this growth. This study makes two contributions: First, the gathering of detailed measurements of the growth of four large-scale networks and make the data available to the research community. Second, the thorough investigation of the link creation processes in datasets. The inadequacy of preferential attachment (i.e., “the rich get richer”), a popular growth model, to explain growth has been revealed in this chapter.

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    For directed networks, we only count directed paths.

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  1. Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Alan Mislove

  2. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Hema Swetha Koppula

  3. Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern–Saarbruecken, Germany

    Krishna P. Gummadi & Peter Druschel

  4. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Bobby Bhattacharjee

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  1. Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India

    Animesh Mukherjee

  2. Microsoft Research Lab India, 9 Lavelle Road, Bangalore, 560001, India

    Monojit Choudhury

  3. , Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Université de Nice - Sophie Antipolis, Parc Valrose, Nice 02, 06108, France

    Fernando Peruani

  4. Dept. Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, West Bengal, India

    Niloy Ganguly

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    Bivas Mitra

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Mislove, A., Koppula, H.S., Gummadi, K.P., Druschel, P., Bhattacharjee, B. (2013). An Empirical Validation of Growth Models for Complex Networks. In: Mukherjee, A., Choudhury, M., Peruani, F., Ganguly, N., Mitra, B. (eds) Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks, Volume 2. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6729-8_2

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