A tag-based network evolution mechanism for online communities

Proceedings - Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 487-491

  Sun, Caihong ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Yang, Xiaoping ^a  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EMERGENT PROPERTIES; EVOLUTION MODELS; TAG BASED NETWORKS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049069715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2007.153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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