Math model predicts growth, death of membership-based websites
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Facebook, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a proven success in what the late Nobel laureate Herbert Simon called "the marketplace of attention." A new model devised at Carnegie Mellon University assesses the viability of websites and social networks in this new attention economy to predict which sites are sustainable and which are not.