Heavy-tailed statistics in short-message communication
- Hong, Wei Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Han, Xiao-Pu Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- Zhou, Tao Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China - Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Wang, Bing-Hong Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China - Shanghai Academy for Systemic Sciences, Shanghai, China
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2009
Published in:
- Chinese Physics Letters. - 2009, vol. 26, no. 02, p. 028902
English
Short-message (SM) is one of the most frequently used communication channels in modern society. Based on the SM communication records provided by some volunteers, we investigate the statistics of SM communication pattern, including the inter-event time distributions between two consecutive short messages and two conversations, and the distribution of message number contained in a complete conversation. In the individual level, the empirical result raises strong evidence that the human activity pattern, exhibiting a heavy-tailed inter-event time distribution, is driven by a non-Poisson process.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
- License
- License undefined
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- RERO DOC 11819
- DOI 10.1088/0256-307X/26/2/028902
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/300998
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