Empirical Analysis on Human Dynamics of QQ Group Communication

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The understanding of the temporal patterns of individual human interactions is essential in explaining many characteristics of human behavior. The instant communication tool QQ is developing rapidly on the network in recent years. Based on the QQ group communication records provided by some volunteers, this paper investigates the statistics of the inter-event intervals between two consecutive messages. The result shows that they follow power-law distribution. And there are obvious positive correlation between the activity of QQ group and the power-law exponent of inter-event time distribution. In further study, we find that the distribution displays a strong bursty property yet weak memory effects, then we analysis the distribution of the number of events in a bursty period.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 998-999)

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1146-1150

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July 2014

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