Modelling user's activity in a real-world complex network
Authors:
Carmen Pellicer-Lostao a;
Daniel Morato b;
Ricardo L
pez-Ruiz c
pez-Ruiz c
| Affiliations: | a Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain |
b Department of Automatics and Computer Science, Universidad P blica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain |
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| c Department of Computer Science and BIFI, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain |
DOI:
10.1080/00207160701670328
Publication Frequency:
12 issues per year
Published in:
International Journal of Computer Mathematics,
Volume
85,
Issue
8
August
2008
, pages 1287
- 1298
Subjects:
Analysis - Mathematics;
Bioinformatics;
Computer Mathematics;
Discrete Mathematics;
Mathematical Finance;
Mathematical Logic;
Mathematical Numerical Analysis;
Systems & Computer Architecture;
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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.
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| Keywords: internet traffic; emergent and collective behaviour; multi-agent systems |
| AMS Subject Classifications: 90B18; 68M10; 94C30; 62P30 |
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