Quantification of deviations from rationality with heavy tails in human dynamics.

@article{Maillart2011QuantificationOD,
  title={Quantification of deviations from rationality with heavy tails in human dynamics.},
  author={Thomas Maillart and Didier Sornette and Steven Frei and Thomas Duebendorfer and Alexander I. Saichev},
  journal={Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics},
  year={2011},
  volume={83 5 Pt 2},
  pages={
          056101
        }
}
The dynamics of technological, economic and social phenomena is controlled by how humans organize their daily tasks in response to both endogenous and exogenous stimulations. Queueing theory is believed to provide a generic answer to account for the often observed power-law distributions of waiting times before a task is fulfilled. However, the general validity of the power law and the nature of other regimes remain unsettled. Using anonymized data collected by Google at the World Wide Web… 
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