TY - JOUR
T1 - Scale-Free Statistics of Bulletin-Board-System Server Visiting
AU - Wang, Wen Nai
AU - Lee, Jaiyong
AU - Mi, Zheng Kun
PY - 2004/2
Y1 - 2004/2
N2 - The scale-free power-law-like signature of statistics of electronic-bulletin-board-system (BBS) server visiting is reported. The Tsallis entropy approach was employed to Rt data sets acquired from servers sited at three Chinese universities. It was found that the exponent of power-law-like probability distribution function, as well as the factor similar to the Lagrange multiplier introduced by the maximum entropy principle, probably depends on the number of discussion forums in BBS servers, while the mathematic expectation does not. It was concluded that statistics of BBS visiting is a good realistic candidate for complex network studies.
AB - The scale-free power-law-like signature of statistics of electronic-bulletin-board-system (BBS) server visiting is reported. The Tsallis entropy approach was employed to Rt data sets acquired from servers sited at three Chinese universities. It was found that the exponent of power-law-like probability distribution function, as well as the factor similar to the Lagrange multiplier introduced by the maximum entropy principle, probably depends on the number of discussion forums in BBS servers, while the mathematic expectation does not. It was concluded that statistics of BBS visiting is a good realistic candidate for complex network studies.
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U2 - 10.1088/0256-307X/21/2/008
DO - 10.1088/0256-307X/21/2/008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:1042279166
SN - 0256-307X
VL - 21
SP - 243
EP - 245
JO - Chinese Physics Letters
JF - Chinese Physics Letters
IS - 2
ER -