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In this work we review some recent development in the mathematical modelling of quantitative sociology by means of statistical mechanics. After a short pedagogical introduction to static and dynamic properties of many body systems, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-15 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Raffaella Burioni , Pierluigi Contucci

Complex systems contain a lot of individuals and some interactions between them. The structure of interactions can be modeled to be a network: nodes represent individuals and links to be interaction between two individuals. This paper tries…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jing Han , Wei Li

Inter-event times of various human behavior are apparently non-Poissonian and obey long-tailed distributions as opposed to exponential distributions, which correspond to Poisson processes. It has been suggested that human individuals may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-27 Makoto Okada , Kenji Yamanishi , Naoki Masuda

Many-particle simulations of vehicle interactions have been quite successful in the qualitative reproduction of observed traffic patterns. However, the assumed interactions could not be measured, as human interactions are hard to quantify…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Milan Krbalek , Dirk Helbing

Interevent times have been studied across various disciplines in search for correlations. In this paper we show analytical and numerical evidence that at the population level a power-law can be obtained by assuming poissonian agents with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cesar A. Hidalgo R

The issue of opinion sharing and formation has received considerable attention in the academic literature, and a few models have been proposed to study this problem. However, existing models are limited to the interactions among nearest…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zuobai Zhang , Wanyue Xu , Zhongzhi Zhang , Guanrong Chen

There is substantial interest in the effect of human mobility patterns on opportunistic communications. Inspired by recent work revisiting some of the early evidence for a L\'evy flight foraging strategy in animals, we analyse datasets on…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-10-01 Mervyn P. Freeman , Nicholas W. Watkins , Eiko Yoneki , Jon Crowcroft

A dynamic herding model with interactions of trading volumes is introduced. At time $t$, an agent trades with a probability, which depends on the ratio of the total trading volume at time $t-1$ to its own trading volume at its last trade.…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2009-11-03 F. Ren , B. Zheng , P. Chen

Temporal social networks are characterized by {heterogeneous} duration of contacts, which can either follow a power-law distribution, such as in face-to-face interactions, or a Weibull distribution, such as in mobile-phone communication.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-23 Kun Zhao , Márton Karsai , Ginestra Bianconi

As humans perceive and actively engage with the world, we adjust our decisions in response to shifting group dynamics and are influenced by social interactions. This study aims to identify which aspects of interaction affect…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-23 Lucila G. Alvarez-Zuzek , Laura Ferrarotti , Bruno Lepri , Riccardo Gallotti

We present new empirical evidence, based on millions of interactions on Twitter, confirming that human contacts scale with population sizes. We integrate such observations into a reaction-diffusion metapopulation framework providing an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-27 Michele Tizzoni , Kaiyuan Sun , Diego Benusiglio , Márton Karsai , Nicola Perra

Turing patterns are a central paradigm for describing spatial patterns in nature. The corresponding theory of reaction-diffusion dynamics combines ideal diffusion with nonlinear reactions, resulting in patterns when species diffuse at…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Cathelijne ter Burg , David Zwicker

Social, technological and economic time series are divided by events which are usually assumed to be random albeit with some hierarchical structure. It is well known that the interevent statistics observed in these contexts differs from the…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 J. Perello , J. Masoliver , A. Kasprzak , R. Kutner

We introduce a new class of models in which a large number of "agents" organize under the influence of an externally imposed coherent noise. The model shows reorganization events whose size distribution closely follows a power law over many…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kim Sneppen , M. E. J. Newman

Processes involving bursts of activity separated by quiescent periods occur across diverse systems and scales. In human dynamics, these phenomena have been described by power-law inter-event time distributions, $P(t)\sim t^{-\alpha}$, with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 Morten Møller , Philipp Rahe , Sadegh Ghaderzadeh , Elena Besley , Philip Moriarty

Temporal inhomogeneities observed in various natural and social phenomena have often been characterized in terms of scaling behaviors in the autocorrelation function with a decaying exponent $\gamma$, the interevent time distribution with a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-20 Byoung-Hwa Lee , Woo-Sung Jung , Hang-Hyun Jo

The recent availability of huge high resolution datasets on human activities has revealed the heavy-tailed nature of the interevent time distributions. In social simulations of interacting agents the standard approach has been to use…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-24 Juan Fernández-Gracia , Víctor M. Eguíluz , Maxi San Miguel

In this paper, we study two large data sets containing the information of two different human behaviors: blog-posting and wiki-revising. In both cases, the interevent time distributions decay as power-laws at both individual and population…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Peng Wang , Ting Lei , Chi Ho Yeung , Bing-hong Wang

Many areas of research are characterised by the deluge of large-scale highly-dimensional time-series data. However, using the data available for prediction and decision making is hampered by the current lag in our ability to uncover and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zina Ibrahim , Honghan Wu , Richard Dobson

This article is a presentation of specific recent results describing scaling limits of individual-based models. Thanks to them, we wish to relate the time-scales typical of demographic dynamics and natural selection to the parameters of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Aurélien Velleret