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Modelling user's activity in a real-world complex network 

Authors: Carmen Pellicer-Lostao a;  Daniel Morato b; Ricardo Loacutepez-Ruiz c
Affiliations:   a Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
b Department of Automatics and Computer Science, Universidad Puacuteblica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
c Department of Computer Science and BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
DOI: 10.1080/00207160701670328
Publication Frequency: 12 issues per year
Published in: journal International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Volume 85, Issue 8 August 2008 , pages 1287 - 1298
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Abstract

In this paper, a new statistical user model for the Internet access is presented. Real traces of Internet traffic in a heterogeneous campus network are analysed. We find three clearly different styles of individual user's behaviour, study their common features and group particular users behaving alike in three clusters. This allows us to build a probabilistic mixture model that implements the expected global behaviour for the different types of users. The implications of this emergent phenomenology are discussed in the field of multi-agent complex systems.
Keywords: internet traffic; emergent and collective behaviour; multi-agent systems
AMS Subject Classifications: 90B18; 68M10; 94C30; 62P30
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