Homogeneous temporal activity patterns in a large online communication space

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 245, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kaltenbrunner, Andreas ^a,b   Gómez, Vicenç ^a,b   Moghnieh, Ayman ^a   Meza, Rodrigo ^a,b   Blat, Josep ^a,b   López, Vicente ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b Barcelona Media Innovation Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heavy tails; Information diffusion; Log normal activity; Slashdot; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

HEAVY-TAILS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; LOG-NORMAL; SLASHDOT; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNICATION; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84884622042     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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