Exploring Scale-Free Networks

Scale-free networks are often dominated overall by relatively few nodes that are linked to relatively many other nodes. This chapter describes the properties of diverse scale-free networks and reviews the development of methods for modeling such networks, covering random graph theory, small-world effects, the idea of preferential attachment, and the dynamic evolution of these networks. By extending the current scale-free network model, we explore an abstract live network—a possible high-level model for Knowledge Grid development.