Barbosa, Valmir C.; Donangelo, Raul; Souza, Sergio R. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 4, pp. 1016-1024
We study network growth from a fixed set of initially isolated nodes placed at random on the surface of a sphere. The growth mechanism we use adds edges to the network depending on strictly local gain and cost criteria. Only nodes that are not too far apart on the sphere may be considered for...