Table 2 Correspondence table for applications.

From: Interacting innovation processes

Chinese restaurant metaphor

Reddit data set

Gutenberg data set

Categories

Sentiment categories (positive/negative)

Literary genres (western/history)

Customer entering the restaurant

Comment

Word

Chosen table

Author of the commented news

Word

Occupation of an empty table

First comment to a news

First appearance of a word

Choice of an already occupied table

Comment to a news whose author has already received comments to other her news

Usage of a word already used before in some of the literary genres

\(D^*_{t,h}=\) number, until time-step t, of distinct tables occupied for their first time by a customer belonging to category h

Number, until time-step t, of distinct authors whose first received comment belongs to sentiment category h

Number, until time-step t, of distinct words whose first apperance has been in literary genre h

\(D_{t,h}=\) number, until time-step t, of distinct tables occupied by at least one customer belonging to category h

Number, until time-step t, of distinct authors who have received at least one comment belonging to sentiment category h

Number, until time-step t, of distinct words that have been used in literary genre h

\(K_t(h,c)=\) number, until time-step t, of customers belonging to category h and sitting at table c

Number, until time-step t of comments received by author c belonging to sentiment category h

Number, until time step t, of times the word c has been used in literary genre h