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Shannon's information theory deliberately excludes message semantics. This paper develops a rigorous framework for semantic communication that integrates formal proof systems with Shannon-theoretic tools. We introduce an axiomatic…

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A first-principles theory is developed for the general evolution of a key structural characteristic of planar granular systems - the cell order distribution. The dynamic equations are constructed and solved in closed form for a number of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-04 Raphael Blumenfeld

The mutual influence of dynamics and structure is a central issue in complex systems. In this paper we study by simulation slow evolution of network under the feedback of a local-majority-rule opinion process. If performance-enhancing local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen Shao , Haijun Zhou

Non-binding communication is common in daily life and crucial for fostering cooperation, even though it has no direct payoff consequences. However, despite robust empirical evidence, its evolutionary basis remains poorly understood. Here,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Zhao Song , Chen Shen , The Anh Han

Modern communication networks are inherently complex in nature. First of all, they have a large number of heterogeneous components. Secondly, their connectivity is extremely dynamic. Nodes can come and go, links can be removed and added…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Bisma S. Khan , Muaz A. Niazi

Computational modelling with multi-agent systems is becoming an important technique of studying language evolution. We present a brief introduction into this rapidly developing field, as well as our own contributions that include an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-08-24 Adam Lipowski , Dorota Lipowska

Semantic communication is regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, which transmits only semantic information to significantly improve communication efficiency. This article introduces a framework for generalized semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Zhijin Qin , Feifei Gao , Bo Lin , Xiaoming Tao , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

Understanding the evolution of cooperation is pivotal in biology and social science. Public resources sharing is a common scenario in the real world. In our study, we explore the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation on a regular graph with…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-02 Yuxin Geng , Xingru Chen

Networks are widely used to model the interaction between individual dynamical systems. In many instances, the total number of units as well as the interaction coupling are not fixed in time, but rather constantly evolve. In terms of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-19 Melvyn Tyloo

Methods and insights from statistical physics are finding an increasing variety of applications where one seeks to understand the emergent properties of a complex interacting system. One such area concerns the dynamics of language at a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-13 Richard A. Blythe

Semantic communication, regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, aims at the successful transmission of semantic information conveyed by the source rather than the accurate reception of each single symbol or bit regardless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Wen Tong , Geoffrey Ye Li

We consider the stochastic patterns of a system of communicating, or coupled, self-propelled particles in the presence of noise and communication time delay. For sufficiently large environmental noise, there exists a transition between a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-04-23 Luis Mier-y-Teran-Romero , Eric Forgoston , Ira B. Schwartz

Competitive interactions represent one of the driving forces behind evolution and natural selection in biological and sociological systems. For example, animals in an ecosystem may vie for food or mates; in a market economy, firms may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-07-03 Jacobo Aguirre , David Papo , Javier M. Buldú

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm to address the challenges of next-generation communication networks. While some progress has been made in its conceptualization, fundamental questions remain unresolved. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

Evolutionary mechanism in a self-organized system cause some functional changes that force to adapt new conformation of the interaction pattern between the components of that system. Measuring the structural differences one can retrace the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-10-19 Anirban Banerjee

This article studies the emergence of ambiguity in communication through the concept of logical irreversibility and within the framework of Shannon's information theory. This leads us to a precise and general expression of the intuition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Jordi Fortuny , Bernat Corominas-Murtra

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning rather than bit-perfect reproduction, representing a paradigm shift from traditional communication. This paper investigates distribution learning in semantic communication where receivers must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samer Lahoud , Kinda Khawam

Toward explaining the persistence of biased inferences, we propose a framework to evaluate competing (mis)specifications in strategic settings. Agents with heterogeneous (mis)specifications coexist and draw Bayesian inferences about their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-02-14 Kevin He , Jonathan Libgober

The quest for historically impactful science and technology provides invaluable insight into the innovation dynamics of human society, yet many studies are limited to qualitative and small-scale approaches. Here, we investigate scientific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-19 Jinhyuk Yun , Pan-Jun Kim , Hawoong Jeong

We study the evolution of networks when the creation and decay of links are based on the position of nodes in the network measured by their centrality. We show that the same network dynamics arises under various centrality measures, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-29 Michael D. Koenig , Claudio J. Tessone