English edit

Etymology edit

From bursty +‎ -ness.

Noun edit

burstiness (countable and uncountable, plural burstinesses)

  1. (computer science) The degree to which something occurs in abrupt bursts
    • 2015 July 11, “Local Variation of Hashtag Spike Trains and Popularity in Twitter”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      In each case, the process presents complex dynamic patterns including temporal correlations, burstiness, and all other types of nonstationarity.