Attractiveness and activity in Internet communities

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 364, Issue , 2006, Pages 603-609

  Ghoshal, Gourab ^a   Holme, Petter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet community; Network dynamics; Online dating

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

INTERNET COMMUNITY; NETWORK DYNAMICS; ONLINE DATING;

INTERNET;

EID: 33645136353     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.04.047     Document Type: Article

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