Newly won evidence shows that many real-world network systems obey a power-law scaling, just as if they were fractal shapes. Could this be the harbinger of a new architectural law for complex systems?
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Strogatz, S. Romanesque networks. Nature 433, 365–366 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/433365a
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