Failure in Complex Social Networks

DOI10.1080/00222500802536988MaRDI QIDQ3395722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Damon Centola

Publication date 13 September 2009

Published in The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702120

zbMATH Keywords

collective dynamicscomplex contagionsdiffusionnetwork robustnessscale-free networkssocial dynamicssocial networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: Tolerance against failures and errors is an important feature of many complex networked systems [1,2]. It has been shown that a class of inhomogeneously wired networks called scale-free[1,3] networks can be surprisingly robust to failures, suggesting that socially self-organized systems such as the World-Wide Web, the Internet, and other kinds of social networks [4] may have significant tolerance against failures by virtue of their scale-free degree distribution. I show that this finding only holds on the assumption that the diffusion process supported by the network is a simple one, requiring only a single contact in order for transmission to be successful.

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