Chin. Phys. Lett.  2011, Vol. 28 Issue (1): 018901    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/28/1/018901
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
Hidden Tree Structure is a Key to the Emergence of Scaling in the World Wide Web
ZHENG Bo-Jin1,2**, WANG Jian-Min1, CHEN Gui-Sheng3, JIANG Jian4, SHEN Xian-Jun5
1School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084
2College of Computer Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074
3Institute of Chinese Electronic Engineering, Beijing 100840
4Institute of Command and Technology of Equipment, Beijing 101416
5Department of Computer Science, Central-China Normal University, Wuhan 430072
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ZHENG Bo-Jin, WANG Jian-Min, CHEN Gui-Sheng et al  2011 Chin. Phys. Lett. 28 018901
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Abstract Preferential attachment is the most popular explanation for the emergence of scaling behavior in the World Wide Web, but this explanation has been challenged by the global information hypothesis, the existence of linear preference and the emergence of new big internet companies in the real world. We notice that most websites have an obvious feature that their pages are organized as a tree (namely hidden tree) and hence propose a new model that introduces a hidden tree structure into the Erdös–Rényi model by adding a new rule: when one node connects to another, it should also connect to all nodes in the path between these two nodes in the hidden tree. The experimental results show that the degree distribution of the generated graphs would obey power law distributions and have variable high clustering coefficients and variable small average lengths of shortest paths. The proposed model provides an alternative explanation to the emergence of scaling in the World Wide Web without the above-mentioned difficulties, and also explains the "preferential attachment" phenomenon.
Keywords: 89.75.Fb      89.20.Hh      89.75.Kd     
Received: 05 May 2010      Published: 23 December 2010
PACS:  89.75.Fb (Structures and organization in complex systems)  
  89.20.Hh (World Wide Web, Internet)  
  89.75.Kd (Patterns)  
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