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We contrast properties and parameters of a Pareto distribution law with the behavior of memory endowed processes underlying the intercontact times of opportunistic networks. Within a general model where mobile agents meet together as a consequence of a common goal they are carrying out, the memory of the process identifies with the agent intention versus a goal, where intention consists in turn in the introduction of asymmetries into a random walk. With these elementary hypotheses we come to a very elementary agents mobility model as a semantic counterpart of the Pareto law. In particular this model gives a suitable meaning to law parameters and a rationale to its fitting of a benchmark of real intercontact times.
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Apolloni, B., Bassis, S., Gaito, S. (2007). Fitting Opportunistic Networks Data with a Pareto Distribution. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4694. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74829-8_99
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