The gravitational law of social interaction

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 393, Issue , 2014, Pages 418-426

  Levy, Moshe ^a   Goldenberg, Jacob ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distance dependence; Gravitational law; Link probability; Searchability; Small world; Social networks

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISTANCE DEPENDENCE; GRAVITATIONAL LAW; LINK PROBABILITY; SEARCHABILITY; SMALL WORLDS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 84886597174     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.08.067     Document Type: Article

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