An investigation into the evolution of communication
Adaptive Behavior
The "DGX" distribution for mining massive, skewed data
Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Term dependence: a basis for Luhn and Zipf models
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Retrieval
Summary of WWW characterizations
World Wide Web
Network dynamics: the world wide web
Network dynamics: the world wide web
A formal derivation of Heaps' Law
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
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In this article, we explore two approaches to modeling hypermedia-based communication. It is argued that the classical conveyor-tube framework is not applicable to the case of computer-and Internet-mediated communication. We then present a simple but very general system-theoretic model of the communication process, propose its mathematical interpretation, and derive several formulas, which qualitatively and quantitatively accord with data obtained on-line. The devised theoretical results generalize and correct the Zipf-Mandelbrot law and can be used in information system design. At the paper's end, we give some conclusions and draw implications for future work.