Motivation
Copying mechanisms for modeling growth of the world wide web are motivated by the following intuition:
- Some web page authors will note an interesting but novel commonality between certain pages, and will link to pages exhibiting this commonality; pages created with this motivation are modeled by a random choice among existing pages.
- Most authors, on the other hand, will be interested in certain already-represented topics, and will collect together links to pages about these topics. Pages created in this way can be modeled by node copying.
Those are the growth and preferential attachment properties of the networks.
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