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MCM
2011
13 years 7 months ago
The shape of the polymerization rate in the prion equation
We consider a polymerization (fragmentation) model with size-dependent parameters involved in prion proliferation. Using power laws for the different rates of this model, we reco...
Pierre Gabriel
JASIS
2011
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13 years 7 months ago
References made and citations received by scientific articles
This paper studies massive evidence about references made and citations received after a five-year citation window by 3.7 million articles published in 1998-2002 in 22 scientific ...
Pedro Albarrán, Javier Ruiz-Castillo
CCR
2000
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14 years 8 days ago
On the origin of power laws in Internet topologies
Recent empirical studies [6] have shown that Internet topologies exhibit power laws of the form
Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, John W. Byers
TOSEM
2008
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14 years 10 days ago
Power laws in software
e than previously established, appearing at various levels of abstraction, in diverse systems and languages. The implications of this phenomenon cover various aspects of software e...
Panagiotis Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis, Vasileios...
ICALP
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Degree Distribution of the FKP Network Model
Recently, Fabrikant, Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou [7] introduced a natural and beautifully simple model of network growth involving a trade-off between geometric and network obje...
Noam Berger, Béla Bollobás, Christia...
WAW
2007
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
Determining Factors Behind the PageRank Log-Log Plot
Abstract. We study the relation between PageRank and other parameters of information networks such as in-degree, out-degree, and the fraction of dangling nodes. We model this relat...
Yana Volkovich, Nelly Litvak, Debora Donato
TELETRAFFIC
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Is ALOHA Causing Power Law Delays?
Abstract. Renewed interest in ALOHA-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols stems from their proposed applications to wireless ad hoc and sensor networks that require distribut...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Jian Tan
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Can Retransmissions of Superexponential Documents Cause Subexponential Delays?
— Consider a generic data unit of random size L that needs to be transmitted over a channel of unit capacity. The channel dynamics is modeled as an on-off process {(Ai, Ui)}i≥1...
Predrag R. Jelenkovic, Jian Tan
ICTAI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A Music Information Retrieval Approach Based on Power Laws
We present a music information retrieval approach based on power laws. Research in cognitive science and neuroscience reveals connections between power laws, human cognition, and ...
Patrick Roos, Bill Z. Manaris
ICSM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Empirical Evidence for SOC Dynamics in Software Evolution
We examine eleven large open source software systems and present empirical evidence for the existence of fractal structures in software evolution. In our study, fractal structures...
Jingwei Wu, Richard C. Holt, Ahmed E. Hassan