Emergence of disassortative mixing from pruning nodes in growing scale-free networks

Disassortative mixing is ubiquitously found in technological and biological networks, while the corresponding interpretation of its origin remains almost virgin. We here give evidence that pruning the largest-degree nodes of a growing scale-free network has the effect of decreasing the degree correl...

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Main Authors: Wang, Sheng-Jun, Wang, Zhen, Jin, Tao, Boccaletti, Stefano
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269889/