Université de Fribourg

Local preferential attachment model for hierarchical networks

Wang, Li-Na ; Guo, Jin-Li ; Yang, Han-Xin ; Zhou, Tao

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, no. 8, p. 1713-1720

A railway transportation system can be represented by a bipartite network consisting of trains and stations, where a train is connected to all stations where it stops. In this paper, motivated by the resource-allocation process taking place on networks, we design a method to project a Chinese train-station bipartite network into a weighted station network. A new metric is proposed to quantify the...