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Understanding Posting Patterns in Microblog User Activities

  • Hong Qin
  • , Qiang Gao*
  • , Wang Chen
  • , Li Fei
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Human activities in temporal scale underlie the patterns of many social, technological, and economic phenomena. Here, we study the posting time interval of Sina microblog active users. It is found that not all the users follow the power-law distribution, but also exponential distribution and a bimodal combination of them. Based on the empirical analysis, we observe that human actions are the result of decision making probability for task execution. In this paper, we introduce a priority queue model. Different decision making probabilities can correspond to different individual activity patterns. The model can match well with the practical situation. Our findings provide insight into online social human activities at the individual level. Our analysis and model are likely to shed light on a wide range of phenomena in other complex systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman Centered Computing - 1st International Conference, HCC 2014, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsQiaohong Zu, Sopheap Seng, Qiaohong Zu, Ning Gu, Bo Hu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages805-811
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9783319155531
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event1st International Conference on Human Centered Computing, HCC 2014 - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duration: 27 Nov 201429 Nov 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8944
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Human Centered Computing, HCC 2014
Country/TerritoryCambodia
CityPhnom Penh
Period27/11/1429/11/14

Keywords

  • Human activity patterns
  • Non-Possion properties
  • Online social network
  • Power-law
  • Time interval

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