Punctuated equilibrium dynamics in human communications

Dan Peng, Xiao-Pu Han, Zong-Wen Wei and Bing-Hong Wang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 436, issue C, 36-44

Abstract: A minimal model based on network incorporating individual interactions is proposed to study the non-Poisson statistical properties of human behavior: individuals in system interact with their neighbors, the probability of an individual acting correlates to its activity, and all the individuals involved in action will change their activities randomly. The model reproduces varieties of spatial–temporal patterns observed in empirical studies of human daily communications, providing insight into various human activities and embracing a range of realistic social interacting systems, particularly, intriguing bimodal phenomenon. This model bridges priority queueing theory and punctuated equilibrium dynamics, and our modeling and analysis is likely to shed light on non-Poisson phenomena in many complex systems.

Keywords: Punctuated equilibrium dynamics; Non-Poisson properties; Power-law distributions; Social networks; Human dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.05.007

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