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7.1 Extracting Evolution of <strong>Web</strong> Community from a Series of <strong>Web</strong> Archive 151Fig. 7.2. Distribution of split rate.Fig. 7.3. Distribution of split rate.Emerged <strong>and</strong> Dissolved CommunitiesThe size distributions of emerged <strong>and</strong> dissolved communities also follow the power law, <strong>and</strong>contribute to preserve the size distribution of communities. Figure 7.4 <strong>and</strong> 7.5 show thesedistributions for all periods in the log-log scale.In most cases, the exponent of the power law is greater than 3.2, while the exponent of thewhole chart is around 3.0. This means that small communities are easy to emerge <strong>and</strong> dissolve.Growth RateFinally, the distribution of the growth rate is examined. Figure 7.6 shows the number of communitiesas a function of the growth rate.

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