Competition-Induced Criticality in a Model of Meme Popularity
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 56
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.048701
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Article number
- 048701
- First page
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- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The paper introduces the novel idea that the competition for attention can result in a system automatically poised at criticality, coining the phrase "competition-induced criticality" to describe this. This is significant new approach as it provides a mechanism for explaining the prevalence of heavy tailed power-law distributions seen in practice. The idea of this competition-induced criticality, as proposed in the paper has been adopted as a tool to study criticality on networks by leading researchers in the field e.g. Kim et al. Scientific Reports 6:23484(2016).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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