A comparative study is carried out on the effciency of five different random walk strategies searching on directed networks constructed based on several typical complex networks.Due to the difference in search effcien...A comparative study is carried out on the effciency of five different random walk strategies searching on directed networks constructed based on several typical complex networks.Due to the difference in search effciency of the strategies rooted in network clustering,the clustering coeFfcient in a random walker's eye on directed networks is defined and computed to be half of the corresponding undirected networks.The search processes are performed on the directed networks based on Erd(o)s-Rényi model,Watts-Strogatz model,Barabási-Albert model and clustered scale-free network model.It is found that self-avoiding random walk strategy is the best search strategy for such directed networks.Compared to unrestricted random walk strategy,path-iteration-avoiding random walks can also make the search process much more effcient.However,no-triangle-loop and no-quadrangle-loop random walks do not improve the search effciency as expected,which is different from those on undirected networks since the clustering coefficient of directed networks are smaller than that of undirected networks.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 11025211the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No 20110101110050+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under Grant No Z6090125the Special Fund for National Excellent PhD Dissertation.
文摘A comparative study is carried out on the effciency of five different random walk strategies searching on directed networks constructed based on several typical complex networks.Due to the difference in search effciency of the strategies rooted in network clustering,the clustering coeFfcient in a random walker's eye on directed networks is defined and computed to be half of the corresponding undirected networks.The search processes are performed on the directed networks based on Erd(o)s-Rényi model,Watts-Strogatz model,Barabási-Albert model and clustered scale-free network model.It is found that self-avoiding random walk strategy is the best search strategy for such directed networks.Compared to unrestricted random walk strategy,path-iteration-avoiding random walks can also make the search process much more effcient.However,no-triangle-loop and no-quadrangle-loop random walks do not improve the search effciency as expected,which is different from those on undirected networks since the clustering coefficient of directed networks are smaller than that of undirected networks.
