Machu François Xavier, Wang Ru Julie, Cheng Jean Louis, Cocks Jeremy, Wang Qiuping Alexandre
Laboratoire SCIQ, ESIEA Group, 9 Rue Vésale, 75005 Paris, France.
IMMM, CNRS UMR 6283, Le Mans Université, Ave. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans, France.
Entropy (Basel). 2023 Feb 7;25(2):305. doi: 10.3390/e25020305.
Preferential attachment (PA) is a widely observed behavior in many living systems and has been used in modeling many networks. The aim of this work is to show that the mechanism of PA is a consequence of the fundamental principle of least effort. We derive PA directly from this principle in maximizing an efficiency function. This approach not only allows a better understanding of the different PA mechanisms already reported but also naturally extends these mechanisms with a non-power law probability of attachment. The possibility of using the efficiency function as a general measure of attachment efficiency is also investigated.
偏好依附(PA)是许多生命系统中广泛观察到的一种行为,并已被用于许多网络的建模。这项工作的目的是表明,PA机制是最小努力基本原则的结果。我们在最大化一个效率函数时直接从这个原则推导出PA。这种方法不仅能更好地理解已报道的不同PA机制,还能自然地扩展这些机制,使其具有非幂律的依附概率。我们还研究了将效率函数用作依附效率通用度量的可能性。