INTEREST-BASED USER ACTIVITY MODEL IN BREAKING NEWS EVENTS
WANG Tai1 , GAO Chuang 2, HU Xiangen2
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1. National Engineering Center for E-Learning, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079; 2. Ministry of Education Key Lab for Adolescent Cyber
Psychology and Behavior, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
From the perspective of the systems science, a group of Internet users who are inspired by a breaking major news event and perform a recordable behavior, can be treated as an intelligent system. An interest-based user activity model is thus proposed in this paper. Three significant factors which can shape the users' behavior are taken into consideration: The news media as an outside stimulus, the interactions between users, and the natural fading memory of the users. The modeling work begins with the behavior dynamics of an individual to derive the mathematical model of the entire group of Internet users. The model is verified by empirical data sets from the search engine, Baidu. Then it is compared with the SIR model published by ETH, and the rumor mill model provided by NetLogo. Finally, the limitation of the model is described.
WANG Tai , GAO Chuang , HU Xiangen.
INTEREST-BASED USER ACTIVITY MODEL IN BREAKING NEWS EVENTS. Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, 2014, 34(3): 294-308 https://doi.org/10.12341/jssms12283