Non-Markovian Character in Human Mobility: Online and Offline
Non-Markovian Character in Human Mobility: Online and Offline
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4922302
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发表时间:
2014-06
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Zhi-Dan Zhao;Shimin Cai;Yang Lu
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作者:
Zhi-Dan Zhao;Shimin Cai;Yang Lu
The dynamics of human mobility characterizes the trajectories that humans follow during their daily activities and is the foundation of processes from epidemic spreading to traffic prediction and information recommendation. In this paper, we investigate a massive data set of human activity, including both online behavior of browsing websites and offline one of visiting towers based mobile terminations. The non-Markovian character observed from both online and offline cases is suggested by the scaling law in the distribution of dwelling time at individual and collective levels, respectively. Furthermore, we argue that the lower entropy and higher predictability in human mobility for both online and offline cases may originate from this non-Markovian character. However, the distributions of individual entropy and predictability show the different degrees of non-Markovian character between online and offline cases. To account for non-Markovian character in human mobility, we apply a protype model with three basic ingredients, namely, preferential return, inertial effect, and exploration to reproduce the dynamic process of online and offline human mobilities. The simulations show that the model has an ability to obtain characters much closer to empirical observations.