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In this introductory chapter we first briefly discuss bursty phenomena in general and walk through some examples of bursty systems from nature and engineered systems and in case of human dynamics. Subsequently we draw our main motivation to write the actual monograph, we specify its overall topic and briefly overlook the structure of the book.
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Non-Poissonian bursty dynamics is in general characterised by the heterogeneous distribution of inter-event times passing between the consecutive occurrences of a given type of event. In contrast a system with Poissonian dynamics, inter-event times are distributed exponentially. However, many empirical inter-event time distributions are broad and follow a log-normal, Weibull, or power-law form, implying that the underlying mechanisms behind them maybe different than a Poisson process. See more about this question in Chap. 2.
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Karsai, M., Jo, HH., Kaski, K. (2018). Introduction. In: Bursty Human Dynamics. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68540-3_1
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