Abstract
We propose a model for the World Wide Web graph that couples the topological growth with the traffic’s dynamical evolution. The model is based on a simple traffic-driven dynamics and generates weighted directed graphs exhibiting the statistical properties observed in the Web. In particular, the model yields a non-trivial time evolution of vertices and heavy-tail distributions for the topological and traffic properties. The generated graphs exhibit a complex architecture with a hierarchy of cohesiveness levels similar to those observed in the analysis of real data.
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Barrat, A., Barthélemy, M., Vespignani, A. (2004). Traffic-Driven Model of the World Wide Web Graph. In: Leonardi, S. (eds) Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph. WAW 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30216-2_5
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