Mathematical model for hit phenomena as stochastic process of   interactions of human interactions
  Mathematical model for hit phenomena in entertainments in the society is presented as stochastic process of interactions of human dynamics. The model use only the time distribution of advertisement budget as input and the words of mouth (WOM) as posting in the social network system is used as the data to compare with the calculated results. The unit of time is daily. The WOM distribution in time is found to be very close to the residue distribution in time. The calculations for Japanese motion picture market due to the mathematical model agree very well with the actual residue distribution in time. 
Akira Ishii, Hisashi Arakaki, Naoya Matsuda, Sanae Umemura, Tamiko   Urushidani, Naoya Yamagata and Narihiko Yoshda
physics.soc-ph cs.SI