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Environmental Influences on Collaboration Network Evolution: A Historical Analysis
Peter R Williams, Zhan Chen
We analysed two large collaboration networks -- the Microsoft Academic Graph (1800-2020) and Internet Movie Database (1900-2020) -- to quantify network responses to major historica…
Free Energy and Network Structure: Breaking Scale-Free Behaviour Through Information Processing Constraints
Peter R Williams, Zhan Chen
In this paper we show how The Free Energy Principle (FEP) can provide an explanation for why real-world networks deviate from scale-free behaviour, and how these characteristic dev…
Weibull Processes in Network Degree Distributions
Peter R Williams, Zhan Chen
This study examines degree distributions in two large collaboration networks: the Microsoft Academic Graph (1800-2020) and Internet Movie Database (1900-2020), comprising $2.72 \ti…
Parametric Analysis of Network Evolution Processes
Peter Williams, Zhan Chen
We present a comprehensive parametric analysis of node and edge lifetimes processes in two large-scale collaboration networks: the Microsoft Academic Graph (1800-2020) and Internet…
Explosive Growth in Large-Scale Collaboration Networks
Peter Williams, Zhan Chen
We analyse the evolution of two large collaboration networks: the Microsoft Academic Graph (1800-2020) and Internet Movie Database (1900-2020), comprising and $1…