Testing a priority-based queue model with Linux command histories

@misc{baek08, abstract = {We study human dynamics by analyzing Linux history files. The goodness-of-fit test shows that most of the collected datasets belong to the universality class suggested in the literature by a variable-length queueing process based on priority. In order to check the validity of this model, we design two tests based on mutual information between time intervals and a mathematical relationship known as the arcsine law. Since the previously suggested queueing process fails to pass these tests, the result suggests that the modelling of human dynamics should properly consider the statistical dependency in the temporal dimension.}, author = {Baek, Seung K. and Kim, Tae Y. and Kim, Beom J. }, citeulike-article-id = {3006109}, eprint = {0807.2097}, keywords = {human\_dynamics}, month = {Jul}, posted-at = {2008-07-15 16:40:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Testing a priority-based queue model with Linux command histories}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2097}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - baek08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3006109 TI - Testing a priority-based queue model with Linux command histories N2 - We study human dynamics by analyzing Linux history files. The goodness-of-fit test shows that most of the collected datasets belong to the universality class suggested in the literature by a variable-length queueing process based on priority. In order to check the validity of this model, we design two tests based on mutual information between time intervals and a mathematical relationship known as the arcsine law. Since the previously suggested queueing process fails to pass these tests, the result suggests that the modelling of human dynamics should properly consider the statistical dependency in the temporal dimension. KW - human_dynamics AU - Baek, Seung AU - Kim, Tae AU - Kim, Beom PY - 2008/Jul/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2097 ER -