Burstiness: Measures, models, and dynamic consequences

Byungjoon Min, K. I. Goh

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    Abstract

    Various human activities were shown to exhibit heavy-tailed dynamics, dubbed "burstiness," which manifests itself as a fat tail in the waiting time distribution. Such a heavy-tailed activity crucially deviates from the traditional assumption of Poisson random activity which had been used for over a century in many theoretical and practical modelings of human activity-based problems. In this survey article, we will overview some recent studies on burstiness, focusing on (a) how to characterize the burstiness, (b) how to model the bursty human activity at the individual and population levels, and (c) how the bursty activity could modify the collective dynamics of spreading processes in social networks.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTemporal Networks
    PublisherSpringer Verlag
    Pages41-64
    Number of pages24
    ISBN (Print)9783642364600
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Publication series

    NameUnderstanding Complex Systems
    ISSN (Print)1860-0832
    ISSN (Electronic)1860-0840

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    The authors would like to thank A.-L. Barabási, W.-k. Cho, I.-M. Kim, and A. Vazquez for the fruitful collaborations on the works reviewed in this article. This work was supported by Basic Science Research Program (No. 2011-0014191) through NRF grant funded by MEST.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Computational Mechanics
    • Artificial Intelligence

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