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| Authors | Damon Centola |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0702120 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702120 |
| Journal | Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 33: 64-68, 2009 |
Abstract
Tolerance against failures and errors is an important feature of many complex networked systems [1,2]. It has been shown that a class of inhomogeneously wired networks called scale-free[1,3] networks can be surprisingly robust to failures, suggesting that socially self-organized systems such as the World-Wide Web, the Internet, and other kinds of social networks [4] may have significant tolerance against failures by virtue of their scale-free degree distribution. I show that this finding only holds on the assumption that the diffusion process supported by the network is a simple one, requiring only a single contact in order for transmission to be successful.
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