Fractal distributions — from the real world to the information world

Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu and Takamitsu Sato
Additional contact information
Hideki Takayasu: Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences
Misako Takayasu: Boston University, Center for Polymer Studies
Takamitsu Sato: NTT, Multimedia Service Department

A chapter in Complexity and Diversity, 1997, pp 91-98 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Self-organization mechanisms of producing fractal distributions in the real world are reviewed showing several examples. Then we extend our subjects of research to the information world which are realized recently by the network of high performance computers. We find that basic quantities in the information world tend to follow fractal distributions, such as file sizes, elapsed CPU times for various jobs and density fluctuations of packet traffics.

Keywords: Fractal distributions; power laws; file sizes; information traffics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-4-431-66862-6_16

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9784431668626

DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-66862-6_16

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().