2002/12/31 by G. Wilk, Z. Wlodarczyk
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat #hep-ph #nucl-th
published as Acta Phys.Polon. B35 (2004) 871-880 · Final version, to be published in Acta Phys. Polon. B35 (2004)
arxiv created 2003/12/03 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Nature is full of random networks of complex topology describing such apparently disparate systems as biological, economical or informatical ones. Their most characteristic feature is the apparent scale-free character of interconnections between nodes. Using an information theory approach, we show that maximalization of information entropy leads to a wide spectrum of possible types of distributions including, in the case of nonextensive information entropy, the power-like scale-free distributions characteristic of complex systems.