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Processes involving bursts of activity separated by quiescent periods occur across diverse systems and scales. In human dynamics, these phenomena have been described by power-law inter-event time distributions, $P(t)\sim t^{-\alpha}$, with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 Morten Møller , Philipp Rahe , Sadegh Ghaderzadeh , Elena Besley , Philip Moriarty

There is a consensus that human and non-human subjects experience temporal distortions in many stages of their perceptual and decision-making systems. Similarly, intertemporal choice research has shown that decision-makers undervalue future…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-31 Pedro A. Ortega , Naftali Tishby

Temporal inhomogeneities observed in various natural and social phenomena have often been characterized in terms of scaling behaviors in the autocorrelation function with a decaying exponent $\gamma$, the interevent time distribution with a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Byoung-Hwa Lee , Woo-Sung Jung , Hang-Hyun Jo

In this paper, we are analyzing the interactivity time, defined as the duration between two consecutive tasks such as sending emails, collecting friends and followers and writing comments in online social networks (OSNs). The distributions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Norbert Blenn , Piet Van Mieghem

Human interactions can be either positive or negative, giving rise to different complex social or anti-social phenomena. The dynamics of these interactions often lead to certain spatio-temporal patterns and complex networks, which can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-18 Syed Shariq Husain , Kiran Sharma

Recently, the impacts of spatiotemporal heterogeneities of human activities on spreading dynamics have attracted extensive attention. In this paper, to study heterogeneous response times on information spreading, we focus on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Ai-Xiang Cui , Wei Wang , Ming Tang , Yan Fu , Xiaoming Liang , Younghae Do

The many-to-many social communication activity on the popular technology-news website Slashdot has been studied. We have concentrated on the dynamics of message production without considering semantic relations and have found regular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-08-14 Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicenç Gómez , Ayman Moghnieh , Rodrigo Meza , Josep Blat , Vicente López

To make informed decisions in natural environments that change over time, humans must update their beliefs as new observations are gathered. Studies exploring human inference as a dynamical process that unfolds in time have focused on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-03 Arthur Prat-Carrabin , Robert C. Wilson , Jonathan D. Cohen , Rava Azeredo da Silveira

Human dynamical social networks encode information and are highly adaptive. To characterize the information encoded in the fast dynamics of social interactions, here we introduce the entropy of dynamical social networks. By analysing a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-17 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi

In recent years we have witnessed an explosion of data collected for different human dynamics, from email communication to social networks activities. Extract useful information from these huge data sets represents a major challenge. In the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-09 Anna Tovo , Samuele Stivanello , Amos Maritan , Samir Suweis , Stefano Favaro , Marco Formentin

Understanding the emergence of inequality in complex systems requires attention to both structural dynamics and intrinsic heterogeneity. In the context of opinion dynamics, traditional models relied on static snapshots or assumed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Akshay Gangadhar , Hiroki Sayama

We present new empirical evidence, based on millions of interactions on Twitter, confirming that human contacts scale with population sizes. We integrate such observations into a reaction-diffusion metapopulation framework providing an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-27 Michele Tizzoni , Kaiyuan Sun , Diego Benusiglio , Márton Karsai , Nicola Perra

Nowadays, E-commerce is increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Meanwhile, shopping process has also changed incrementally from one behavior (purchase) to multiple behaviors (such as view, carting and purchase). Therefore, utilizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Daqing Wu , Xiao Luo , Zeyu Ma , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Jinwen Ma

Interactions between users in cyberspace may lead to phenomena different from those observed in common social networks. Here we analyse large data sets about users and Blogs which they write and comment, mapped onto a bipartite graph. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Marija Mitrović , Bosiljka Tadić

To investigate the structure of individual differences in performance on behavioral tasks, Haaf and Rouder (2017) developed a class of hierarchical Bayesian mixed models with varying levels of constraint on the individual effects. The…

Applications · Statistics 2022-10-24 Thomas J. Faulkenberry

Many human-related activities show power-law decaying interevent time distribution with exponents usually varying between 1 and 2. We study a simple task-queuing model, which produces bursty time series due to the nontrivial dynamics of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-22 Szabolcs Vajna , Bálint Tóth , János Kertész

Empirical temporal networks display strong heterogeneities in their dynamics, which profoundly affect processes taking place on these networks, such as rumor and epidemic spreading. Despite the recent wealth of data on temporal networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-13 Christian L. Vestergaard , Mathieu Génois , Alain Barrat

Social, technological and economic time series are divided by events which are usually assumed to be random albeit with some hierarchical structure. It is well known that the interevent statistics observed in these contexts differs from the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 J. Perello , J. Masoliver , A. Kasprzak , R. Kutner

We conduct a review to assess how the simulation of repeated or recurrent events are planned. For such multivariate time-to-events, it is well established that the underlying mechanism is likely to be complex and to involve in particular…

Applications · Statistics 2015-03-20 Juliette Pénichoux , Thierry Moreau , Aurélien Latouche

The recent availability of huge high resolution datasets on human activities has revealed the heavy-tailed nature of the interevent time distributions. In social simulations of interacting agents the standard approach has been to use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-24 Juan Fernández-Gracia , Víctor M. Eguíluz , Maxi San Miguel