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Introduction and Motivations

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Temporal Patterns of Communication in Social Networks

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Uncovering the patterns that characterize human behavior is not only one of the main challenges of contemporary science, but also of outstanding importance for the understanding and modeling of many real phenomena which dynamics is related to the way in which people are connected and interact and to the mechanisms that govern the dynamics of such interactions.

Science advances whenever we can take something that was once invisible and make it visible; and this is now taking place with regard to social networks and social processes. —Jon Kleinberg.

“The Convergence of Social and Technological Networks” (Kleinberg 2008)

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Miritello, G. (2013). Introduction and Motivations. In: Temporal Patterns of Communication in Social Networks. Springer Theses. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00110-4_1

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