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## Forest Fire Network Model

### Description

This is a growing network model, which resembles of how the forest fire spreads by igniting trees close by.

### Usage

sample_forestfire(nodes, fw.prob, bw.factor = 1, ambs = 1, directed = TRUE)


### Arguments

 nodes The number of vertices in the graph. fw.prob The forward burning probability, see details below. bw.factor The backward burning ratio. The backward burning probability is calculated as bw.factor*fw.prob. ambs The number of ambassador vertices. directed Logical scalar, whether to create a directed graph.

### Details

The forest fire model intends to reproduce the following network characteristics, observed in real networks:

• Heavy-tailed in-degree distribution.

• Heavy-tailed out-degree distribution.

• Communities.

• Densification power-law. The network is densifying in time, according to a power-law rule.

• Shrinking diameter. The diameter of the network decreases in time.

The network is generated in the following way. One vertex is added at a time. This vertex connects to (cites) ambs vertices already present in the network, chosen uniformly random. Now, for each cited vertex v we do the following procedure:

1. We generate two random number, x and y, that are geometrically distributed with means p/(1-p) and rp(1-rp). (p is fw.prob, r is bw.factor.) The new vertex cites x outgoing neighbors and y incoming neighbors of v, from those which are not yet cited by the new vertex. If there are less than x or y such vertices available then we cite all of them.

2. The same procedure is applied to all the newly cited vertices.

### Value

A simple graph, possibly directed if the directed argument is TRUE.

### Note

The version of the model in the published paper is incorrect in the sense that it cannot generate the kind of graphs the authors claim. A corrected version is available from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/pubs/powergrowth-tkdd.pdf, our implementation is based on this.

### Author(s)

Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

### References

Jure Leskovec, Jon Kleinberg and Christos Faloutsos. Graphs over time: densification laws, shrinking diameters and possible explanations. KDD '05: Proceeding of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining, 177–187, 2005.

barabasi.game for the basic preferential attachment model.

### Examples


g <- sample_forestfire(10000, fw.prob=0.37, bw.factor=0.32/0.37)
dd1 <- degree_distribution(g, mode="in")
dd2 <- degree_distribution(g, mode="out")
plot(seq(along=dd1)-1, dd1, log="xy")
points(seq(along=dd2)-1, dd2, col=2, pch=2)


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