NDLI: Modeling microblogging communication based on human dynamics

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Jianjun Xie Chuang Zhang Ming Wu
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System Lab, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (Jianjun Xie; Chuang Zhang; Ming Wu)
Abstract	Microblog is a large-scale information sharing platform where intensive communications are taking place through interactive user behaviors. Previous studies have analyzed and modeled a series of traditional communications, such as letter, email and phone calls. The timing of human activities tends to be non-Poisson with bursts and heavy tails. Hence, several models have been proposed to explain human dynamics of bursts and heavy tails in various fields. However, as a newly developed product of Web2.0, microblog possesses inherent new characteristics, e.g. user-centric broadcast medium and asymmetric user relations. The communication in microblog is still poorly understood. Our work proposed an interest-driven model to simulate basic user communicating behaviors and processes. We came to the conclusion that, in microblogging communication, individual behaviors are bursts of rapidly occurring events separated by long periods of inactivity. Collective behaviors follow heavy-tailed Power Law distribution, whose origin is the descent of interests. Empirical statistics were also given to verify the model.
Starting Page	2290
Ending Page	2294
File Size	264027
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612841809
e-ISBN	9781612841816
DOI	10.1109/FSKD.2011.6020045
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-07-26
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	user behaviors interest descent Publishing Communities Humans microblogging communication Power Law distribution Twitter Silicon Electronic mail
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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