Normalized entropy of rank distribution: A novel measure of heterogeneity of complex networks

Chinese Physics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1576-1580

  Wu, Jun ^a   Tan, Yue Jin ^a   Deng, Hong Zhong ^a   Zhu, Da Zhi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Heterogeneity; Rank distribution; Scale free networks

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; SCALING LAWS;

HETEROGENEITY; NORMALIZED ENTROPY OF RANK DISTRIBUTION (NERD); RANK DISTRIBUTION;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250012627     PISSN: 10091963     EISSN: 17414199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/6/014     Document Type: Article

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