Homogeneous temporal activity patterns in a large online communication space

Simple item page
dc.creatorKaltenbrunner, Andreas
dc.creatorGómez, Vicenç
dc.creatorMoghnieh, Ayman
dc.creatorMeza, Rodrigo
dc.creatorBlat, Josep
dc.creatorLópez, Vicente
dc.date2007-08-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:23:19Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:23:19Z
dc.descriptionThe 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 temporal patterns in the reaction time of the community to a news-post as well as in single user behavior. The statistics of these activities follow log-normal distributions. Daily and weekly oscillatory cycles, which cause slight variations of this simple behavior, are identified. A superposition of two log-normal distributions can account for these variations. The findings are remarkable since the distribution of the number of comments per users, which is also analyzed, indicates a great amount of heterogeneity in the community. The reader may find surprising that only a few parameters allow a detailed description, or even prediction, of social many-to-many information exchange in this kind of popular public spaces.
dc.description17 pages, 10 figures, to be published in International Journal on WWW/Internet
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1579
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1579
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/135953
dc.subjectNetworking and Internet Architecture
dc.subjectC.2.3
dc.titleHomogeneous temporal activity patterns in a large online communication space
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv