IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/ijmpcx/v25y2014i11ns0129183114500636.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Impact of the time pattern of human behaviors on information spreading

Author

Listed:
  • Lin Zhang

    (School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China;
    State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China)

  • Tingting Pan

    (School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China;
    State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China)

  • Ye Wu

    (School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China;
    State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China)

  • Jinghua Xiao

    (School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China;
    State Key Lab of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, P. R. China)

Abstract

There is sufficient evidence to support that the inter-event time distribution of human behaviors is heavy tailed. This fact plays an important role in human dynamics at collective levels. Recently, researchers found that the heavy-tailed inter-activity patterns of human behaviors slow down the spreading significantly. In this paper, we investigate the influence of people's interest time length on information spreading. Considering that information has its own time period of being interested in, we find that for small interest time period, heavy-tailed human behaviors can enhance the information spreading. While for large interest time period, the heavy-tailed human behaviors will suppress the spreading. These results can help us understanding the rule of information spreading, controlling and limiting the outbreak of rumors.

Suggested Citation

  • Lin Zhang & Tingting Pan & Ye Wu & Jinghua Xiao, 2014. "Impact of the time pattern of human behaviors on information spreading," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(11), pages 1-10.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:25:y:2014:i:11:n:s0129183114500636
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183114500636
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0129183114500636
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0129183114500636?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:25:y:2014:i:11:n:s0129183114500636. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpc/ijmpc.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.