Recently I have discovered an online education system Coursera. While browsing through the available courses I noticed one named "Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis". Sadly it was already six weeks into the eight week program, so I was not able to formally complete it. Yet the knowledge I have obtained by viewing videos of this course enabled me to prepare couple of posts for this website.

Previously, I have already written about the Erdos-Renyi and the Watts-Strogatz ("small world" networks) network formation models. This time I'll write about the Barabasi-Albert model ("scale-free" networks).

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Recently I have discovered an online education system Coursera. While browsing through the available courses I noticed one named "Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis". Sadly it was already six weeks into the eight week program, so I was not able to formally complete it. Yet the knowledge I have obtained by viewing videos of this course enabled me to prepare couple of posts for this website.

Previously, I have already written about the Erdos-Renyi network formation model. While this time I'll write about the Watts-Strogatz network formation model ("small world" networks). The Barabasi-Albert model ("scale-free" networks) will be left for the next post.

The Bank of Spain Chair in Computational Economics at the Economics Department of the University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain), headed by Professor Thomas Lux, is seeking to fill two positions for Doctoral Students.

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Recently I have discovered an online education system Coursera. While browsing through the available courses I noticed one named "Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis". Sadly it was already six weeks into the eight week program, so I was not able to formally complete it. Yet the knowledge I have obtained by viewing videos of this course enabled me to prepare couple of posts for this website.

During the next couple of posts I will consider some of the well-known network models. I'll start in this text from the Erdos-Renyi network formation model, and later will continue with the Watts-Strogatz model ("small world" networks) and the Barabasi-Albert model ("scale-free" networks).