Small-World Connectivity and Attractor Neural Networks

Scale-free networks are abundant both in nature (e.g. protein interactions and social networks) and man-made systems (e.g. World Wide Web, power grids, and citation networks) (Barabási and Albert 1999; Newman 2003). In a scale-free network the number of edges per vertex follows a power-law. A characteristic feature of scale-free networks is that they have small average path-lengths, ℓ, i.e. th