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One of the aims of systems biology is to build multiple layered and multiple scale models of living systems which can efficiently describe phenomena occurring at various level of resolution. Such models should consist of layers of various…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Jacek Banasiak , Aleksandra Falkiewicz , Proscovia Namayanja

We know anything because we learn about it, there is anything we ever share about it, but now a lot of media that can represent how it happened as infrastructure of the knowledge sharing. This paper aims to introduce a model for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Sufianto Mahfudz , Mahyuddin K. M. Nasution , Sawaluddin Nasution

Urban scaling laws relate socio-economic, behavioral, and physical variables to the population size of cities and allow for a new paradigm of city planning, and an understanding of urban resilience and economies. Independently of culture…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-08-21 Carlos Molinero , Stefan Thurner

Multi-agent models are a suitable starting point to model complex social interactions. However, as the complexity of the systems increase, we argue that novel modeling approaches are needed that can deal with inter-dependencies at different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Frank Dignum

For past several decades, research efforts in population modelling has proven its efficacy in understanding the basic information about residential and commercial areas, as well as for the purposes of planning, development and improvement…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Gautam S. Thakur , Kevin A. Sparks , Robert N. Stewart , Marie L. Urban , Budhendra L. Bhaduri

Over the last decades, in disciplines as diverse as economics, geography, and complex systems, a perspective has arisen proposing that many properties of cities are quantitatively predictable due to agglomeration or scaling effects. Using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-06 Luis M. A. Bettencourt , Jose Lobo

Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic units, the detailed fabric of urban economic activities is…

Migration plays a crucial role in urban growth. Over time, individuals opting to relocate led to vast metropolises like London and Paris during the Industrial Revolution, Shanghai and Karachi during the last decades and thousands of smaller…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-03 Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Carmen Cabrera-Arnau

This paper focuses on the challenge of interactively modeling street networks. In this work, we extend the simple fractal model, which is particularly useful for describing small cities or individual districts, by constructing random cities…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Geoffrey Deperle , Philippe Jacquet

Communities are an important feature of social networks. In fact, it seems that communities are necessary for a social network to be efficient. However, there exist very few formal studies of the actual role of communities in social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Peter Marbach

The topological organization of several world cities are studied according to respective representations by complex networks. As a first step, the city maps are processed by a recently developed methodology that allows the most significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-09-26 Guilherme S. Domingues , Filipi N. Silva , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa

Two measurements are employed to quantitatively investigate the scaling properties of the spatial distribution of urban facilities, the K function by number counting and the variance-mean relationship with the method of expanding bins. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-12-24 Liang Wu

To study the propagation of information from individual to individual, we need mobility datasets. Existing datasets are not satisfactory because they are too small, inaccurate or target a homogeneous subset of population. To draw valid…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Antoine Huchet , Jean-Loup Guillaume , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Orderliness, reflected via mathematical laws, is encountered in different frameworks involving social groups. Here we show that a thermodynamics can be constructed that macroscopically describes urban population flows. Microscopic dynamic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-04-30 A. Hernando , A. Plastino

Universality in the behavior of complex systems often reveals itself in the form of scale-invariant distributions that are essentially independent of the details of the microscopic dynamics. A representative paradigm of complex behavior in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Malescio , N. V. Dokholyan , S. V. Buldyrev , H. Eugene Stanley

In an impending urban age where the majority of the world's population will live in cities, it is critical that we improve our understanding of the strengths and limitations of existing city designs to ensure they are safe, clean, can…

In this paper, we present a modelling experiment developed to study systems of cities and processes of urbanisation in large territories over long time spans. Building on geographical theories of urban evolution, we rely on agent-based…

We model the dynamics of social structure by a simple interacting particle system. The social standing of an individual agent is represented by an integer-valued fitness that changes via two offsetting processes. When two agents interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Ben-Naim , F. Vazquez , S. Redner

Understanding urban form is crucial for sustainable urban planning and enhancing quality of life. This study presents a data-driven framework to systematically identify and compare urban typologies across geographically and culturally…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Arthur Carmès , Léo Catteau , Andrew Sonta , Arash Tavakoli

The spatial pattern of urban-rural regional system is associated with the dynamic process of urbanization. How to characterize the urban-rural terrain using quantitative measurement is a difficult problem remaining to be solved. This paper…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Yanguang Chen