Title :
Acquaintance recommending in local world: Evolving mechanisms of IM user topology
Author :
Yan, Qiang ; Huang, Xiaoyan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing
Abstract :
Instant messaging (IM) has become increasingly popular in the past few years. An online survey was carried out to analyze IM users´ behaviors. The results imply that the degree distribution of IM users doesn´t follow power law characters. Based on the data analysis, a new evolving model for IM user topology is proposed which contains two main principles: preferential attachment in local world and acquaintance recommending. There is a good fitness for the simulation results to the actual data.
Keywords :
electronic messaging; topology; IM user topology; acquaintance recommending; data analysis; degree distribution; instant messaging; Complex networks; Data analysis; Humans; Internet; Network topology; Power generation economics; Protocols; Social network services; Surveillance; Telecommunication network topology; Instant messaging; acquaintance recommending; local world; preferential attachment; topology;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008. SMC 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2383-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1062-922X
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811261
