2009, Berthold, Michael R., Brandes, Ulrik, Kötter, Tobias, Mader, Martin, Nagel, Uwe, Thiel, Kilian

Almost every application of spreading activation is accompanied by its own set of often heuristic restrictions on the dynamics. We show that in constraint-free scenarios spreading activation would actually yield query-independent results, so that the specific choice of restrictions is not only a pragmatic computational issue, but crucially determines the outcome.