  The intermittency-type fluctuations as outlined by Bialas and Peschanski in
the 1980s is analysed in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 0.9, 7 and 8 TeV from
the CMS collaboration at CERN. Our preliminary analysis shows that the
intermittency exponents in the bin-averaged scaled factorial moments decrease
in magnitude with increasing collision energy at the TeV scale, which suggests
that the cascading nature of multiparticle production described by the
$\alpha$-model is weakening. We outline possible areas planned for future
studies.
