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A system of interacting walkers is considered in a two-dimensional hypothetical space, where the dynamics of each walker are governed by the opinion states of the agents of a fully connected three-state opinion dynamics model. Such walks,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-29 Surajit Saha , Parongama Sen

Random walks and related spatial stochastic models have been used in a range of application areas including animal and plant ecology, infectious disease epidemiology, developmental biology, wound healing, and oncology. Classical random walk…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

We study a Stackelberg strategy subject to the evolutionary linearized micropolar fluids equations in domains with moving boundaries, considering a Nash multi-objective equilibrium (non necessarily cooperative) for the "follower players"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Isaías Pereira de Jesus

We propose an entropic geometrical model of psycho-physical crowd dynamics (with dissipative crowd kinematics), using Feynman action-amplitude formalism that operates on three synergetic levels: macro, meso and micro. The intent is to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-27 Vladimir G. Ivancevic , Darryn J. Reid

A growing body of work in game theory extends the traditional Stackelberg game to settings with one leader and multiple followers who play a Nash equilibrium. Standard approaches for computing equilibria in these games reformulate the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kai Wang , Lily Xu , Andrew Perrault , Michael K. Reiter , Milind Tambe

Following the paradigm set by attraction-repulsion-alignment schemes, a myriad of individual based models have been proposed to calculate the evolution of abstract agents. While the emergent features of many agent systems have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-03 Rafael Bailo , José A. Carrillo , Pierre Degond

In this paper, we address the problem of optimizing flows on generalized graphs that feature multiple entry points and multiple populations, each with varying cost structures. We tackle this problem by considering the multi-population…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Tigran Bakaryan , Christoph Aoun , Ricardo de Lima Ribeiro , Naira Hovakimyan , Diogo Gomes

We study a system of interacting self-propelled particles whose walking velocity depends on the stage of the locomotion cycle. The model introduces a phase equation in the optimal velocity model for vehicular traffic. We find that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Takahiro Ezaki , Ryosuke Nishi , Daichi Yanagisawa , Katsuhiro Nishinari

This paper deals with the kinetic theory modeling of crowd dynamics with the aim of showing how the dynamics at the micro-scale is transferred to the dynamics of collective behaviors. The derivation of a new model is followed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-24 Nicola Bellomo , Abdelghani Bellouquid , Damian Knopoff

The calibration and validation of pedestrian simulations require the acquisition of empirical evidences of human behaviour. The current work presents the results of an experiment focused on the potentially combined effect of counter flow…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Andrea Gorrini , Luca Crociani , Claudio Feliciani , Pengfei Zhao , Katsuhiro Nishinari , Stefania Bandini

The fluid-mechanics community is currently divided in assessing the boundaries of applicability of the macroscopic approach to fluid mechanical problems. Can the dynamics of nano-droplets be described by the same macroscopic equations as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-13 Alex V. Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer

In this paper we study hyperbolic and parabolic nonlinear partial differential equation models, which describe the evolution of two intersecting pedestrian flows. We assume that individuals avoid collisions by sidestepping, which is encoded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-20 Sabine Hittmeir , Helene Ranetbauer , Christian Schmeiser , Marie-Therese Wolfram

We propose an entropic geometrical model of crowd behavior dynamics (with dissipative crowd kinematics), using Feynman action--amplitude formalism that operates on three synergetic levels: macro, meso and micro. The intent is to explain the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-07-01 Vladimir G. Ivancevic , Darryn J. Reid , Eugene V. Aidman

The goal of this work is to study an infectious disease spreading in a medium size population occupying a confined environment. For this purpose, we consider a kinetic theory approach to model crowd dynamics in bounded domains and couple it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-04-28 Daewa Kim , Annalisa Quaini

We investigate stochastic differential games of optimal trading comprising a finite population. There are market frictions in the present framework, which take the form of stochastic permanent and temporary price impacts. Moreover,…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-02-09 David Evangelista , Yuri Thamsten

The theory of mean field games is a tool to understand noncooperative dynamic stochastic games with a large number of players. Much of the theory has evolved under conditions ensuring uniqueness of the mean field game Nash equilibrium.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Bruce Hajek , Michael Livesay

This article is on collective phenomena in pedestrian dynamics during the assembling and dispersal phases of gatherings. To date pedestrian dynamics have been primarily studied in the natural and engineering sciences. Pedestrians are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-05 Anna Sieben , Jette Schumann , Armin Seyfried

In this paper, we present a new generalized Hughes model designed to intelligently depict pedestrian congestion dynamics, allowing pedestrian groups to either navigate through or circumvent high-density regions. First, we describe the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Mohamed Ghattassi , Nader Masmoudi

We develop a mesoscopic modeling framework for diffusion in a crowded environment, particularly targeting applications in the modeling of living cells. Through homogenization techniques we effectively coarse-grain a detailed microscopic…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-19 Stefan Engblom , Per Lötstedt , Lina Meinecke

Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works address the problem by predicting individual trajectories and considering surrounding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Antonius Bima Murti Wijaya , Paul Henderson , Marwa Mahmoud