Statistical Analysis of Contact Patterns between Human-Carried Mobile Devices

Hu, Tong; Wenning, Bernd-Ludwig; Görg, Carmelita; Toseef, Umar

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37935-2_19

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“…In the six communication systems examined in this study, the distributions of the strengths of social relationships d showed power law distributions (Fig. 1), similar to those observed in previous studies (Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014;Hossmann et al, 2011;Hu et al, 2012). Individuals selected social grooming partners in proportion to the strength of their social relationships, that is, the individuals tended to reinforce their strong social relationships; these power law distributions were generated by the Yule-Simon process (Yule, 1925;Simon, 1955;Newman, 2005) (Fig.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…O n the basis of the social brain hypothesis (Byrne and Whiten, 1989;Whiten and Byrne, 1997;Dunbar, 2000;Dunbar, 2003), an explanation of social structures, which are typical for humankind, is expected to offer knowledge about human origins, such as the limitation on the number of social relationships (Dunbar, 2000;Dunbar, 2003;Hill and Dunbar, 2003;Gonçalves et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2013a) and the skewness of social relationships (Zhou et al, 2005;Hossmann et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Arnaboldi et al, 2013b;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014), that is, its distributions following a power law (Hossmann et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2012;Pachur et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014). These social structures may be caused by human beings' social grooming strategies (Dunbar, 2004).…”

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“…Thus, we expect that they employ strategies to distribute the limited time resources to maximize benefits from their social relationships (Brown and Brown, 2006;Miritello et al, 2013b;Saramaki et al, 2014). As a result of such strategies, social relationship strengths (as measured by frequency of social grooming (Roberts and Dunbar, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Arnaboldi et al, 2013b;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014;Saramaki et al, 2014) may often show a much skewed distribution (Zhou et al, 2005;Arnaboldi et al, 2013b) (distributions following a power law (Hossmann et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Hu et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014)). …”

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“…They are useful for constructing theoretical models of social phenomena. Studies (Arnaboldi et al, 2012;Song et al, 2012;Fujihara and Miwa, 2014;Hossmann et al, 2011;Arnaboldi et al, 2013b;Hu et al, 2012;Takano et al, 2016a;Saramaki et al, 2014;Dunbar, 2016;Takano et al, 2016b) previously cited in this paper have also analysed data from SNSs, mobile phones, social network games, and SMSs.…”

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Limitations of time resources in human relationships determine social structures

Takano¹,

Fukuda²

2017

Palgrave Commun

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The number of social relationships that a single human being can possibly be involved in is limited because individuals face time constraints (that is, time costs) in constructing and maintaining social relationships; furthermore, the distribution of the strength of such relationships (as measured by frequency of social interaction) looks significantly skewed (a power law distribution), that is, a few strong relationships and many weak relationships. This skewedness suggests that the costs and benefits of bonding with others depend on the strength of the social relationships: if it involves uniform costs and benefits, the distribution would not be skewed. The bonding is known as social grooming; that is, humans strategically construct their social relationships, and thus, complex human societies should also be strategically constructed. Therefore, it is important to know their strategies for understanding human societies. Previous studies provide evidence of social grooming strategies by examining the evolution and the difference between the various social grooming methods. However, quantitative laws that are important for theoretically understanding human societies are still open to investigation. Social big data is a particularly powerful tool for finding such laws. Therefore, we analyse data from six communication systems (Twitter, a social networking site providing two types of interactions, an avatar chat, a mobile phone and a short message service). We find a simple quantitative law by which social relationships are constrained Nm a (a41); here, N is the number of social relationships and m is a mean of the strength of those relationships. The fact that deep social relationships require higher costs per relationship than shallow relationships is suggested by a41 (if the both is equal then a will be 1), because the effect of m on the constraint increases with m. For exploring why a is greater than 1, we conduct an individual-based simulation where social grooming costs are assumed to increase linearly with the strength of social relationships. Our results indicate that this model fits all data sets; that is, it displays an explanation capacity for the phenomenon. In addition, an analysis of this simulation proves our assumption about the social grooming cost increasing with the strength of social relationships as being true. Moreover, it suggests that its gradient increases the width and shallowness of these relationships. The law and its causes suggest that mankind's evolution of social grooming has enabled changing social structures, and the phenomenon is because of the constraints of the social network generation. These findings will contribute towards an explanation of the evolution of the various social grooming methods of humans and their significantly large social group.

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“…This observation was based on studying a number of GPS, GSM, WiFi, and Bluetooth datasets. Recently, these statistical characteristics of inter-contact times have been reconfirmed [15].…”

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Modeling Human Mobility and its Applications in Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks: a Short Survey

Fayazbakhsh

2013

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Human mobility patterns are complex and distinct from one person to another. Nevertheless, motivated by tremendous potential benefits of modeling such patterns in enabling new mobile services and technologies, researchers have attempted to capture salient characteristics of human mobility. In this short survey paper, we review some of the major techniques for modeling humans' co-location, as well as predicting human location and trajectory. Further, we review one of the most important application areas of such models, namely, routing in delay-tolerant networks.

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Dynamics of Human Behavior and Societies based on Social Big Data

Takano

2017

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Social big data provide a particularly powerful tool for the quantitative study of human behavior and social phenomena, because it enables us to observe the social behaviors of humans in detail. In this paper, we introduce four topics in social science: cooperative behavior, social grooming and social structures, in-group bias, and sexual selection. We introduce previous works and recent studies on social big data analysis in each topic. Additionally, we mention new problems that are arising with the growth of the Web and studies on these problems.

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Statistical Analysis of Contact Patterns between Human-Carried Mobile Devices

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Limitations of time resources in human relationships determine social structures

Limitations of time resources in human relationships determine social structures

Modeling Human Mobility and its Applications in Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks: a Short Survey

Dynamics of Human Behavior and Societies based on Social Big Data

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