TY - GEN
T1 - From networks to human behavior
AU - Barabási, Albert László
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Highly interconnected networks with amazingly complex topology describe systems as diverse as the World Wide Web, our cells, social systems or the economy. Recent studies indicate that these networks are the result of self-organizing processes governed by simple but generic laws, resulting in architectural features that makes them much more similar to each other than one would have expected by chance. I will discuss the amazing order characterizing our interconnected world and its implications to network robustness and spreading processes. Finally, most of these networks are driven by the temporal patterns characterizing human activity. I will use communication and web browsing data to show that there is deep order in the temporal domain of human dynamics, and discuss the different ways to understand and model the emerging patterns.
AB - Highly interconnected networks with amazingly complex topology describe systems as diverse as the World Wide Web, our cells, social systems or the economy. Recent studies indicate that these networks are the result of self-organizing processes governed by simple but generic laws, resulting in architectural features that makes them much more similar to each other than one would have expected by chance. I will discuss the amazing order characterizing our interconnected world and its implications to network robustness and spreading processes. Finally, most of these networks are driven by the temporal patterns characterizing human activity. I will use communication and web browsing data to show that there is deep order in the temporal domain of human dynamics, and discuss the different ways to understand and model the emerging patterns.
KW - Network science
KW - World Wide Web
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72449209251&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1571941.1571943
DO - 10.1145/1571941.1571943
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72449209251
SN - 9781605584836
T3 - Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009
SP - 435
BT - Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009
T2 - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009
Y2 - 19 July 2009 through 23 July 2009
ER -