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Charles François (2004). SMALL WORLD, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3067.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 3067 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
- “A network containing many nodes that have a few links , together with a few nodes- or hubs - with many links”(A. FROOD, p. 33)
FROOD connects this model with the power law distribution : “This arrangement…greatly reduces the number of steps needed to link any two nodes, compared with a completely regular network ”(Ibid)
According to A. LASZLO BARABASI (Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana) “The very topology of these networks plays a crucial role in how these systems behave”. And “finding that food webs follow a power law distribution , just like we see for the cell , and the internet, suggests that nature displays a high degree of economy when it spans its various networks- it uses the same blueprint for most of them”(Ibid)