Emergence of good conduct, scaling and zipf laws in human behavioral sequences in an online world

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Thurner, Stefan ^a,b,c   Szell, Michael ^a   Sinatra, Roberta ^d,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; GAME; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL NETWORK; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENTROPY; INTERNET; TIME;

BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; ENTROPY; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855764531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029796     Document Type: Article

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