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Representing social systems as networks, starting from the interactions between individuals, sheds light on the mechanisms governing their dynamics. However, networks encode only pairwise interactions, while most social interactions occur…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-08-29 Iacopo Iacopini , Márton Karsai , Alain Barrat

Face-to-face interaction networks describe social interactions in human gatherings, and are the substrate for processes such as epidemic spreading and gossip propagation. The bursty nature of human behavior characterizes many aspects of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-24 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

This article deals with the experimental study of pedestrian behaviours in some situations of one-dimensional traffic. Participants were pre-organized in a line, and asked to walk either in a straight line with a fast or slow leader, or to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-09 Cécile Appert-Rolland , Anne-Hélène Olivier , Julien Pettré

Populations of mobile and communicating agents describe a vast array of technological and natural systems, ranging from sensor networks to animal groups. Here, we investigate how a group-level agreement may emerge in the continuously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-01-25 Andrea Baronchelli , Albert Diaz-Guilera

We report on two series of experiments, conducted in the frame of two different collaborations designed to study how pedestrians adapt their trajectories and velocities in groups or crowds. Strong emphasis is put on the motivations for the…

We study the mean-field limit of a generic class of dynamic co-evolving latent space networks motivated by the social and opinion dynamics literature. Such models include $n$ agents, whose opinions are given by latent stochastic processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ankan Ganguly , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Daniel Sussman

We study the spatial patterns formed by a system of interacting particles where the mobility of any individual is determined by the population crowding at two different spatial scales. In this way we model the behavior of some biological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ricardo Martínez-García , Clara Murgui , Emilio Hernández-García , Cristóbal López

Mean field games and controls involve guiding the behavior of large populations of interacting agents, where each individual's influence on the group is negligible but collectively impacts overall dynamics. Hybrid systems integrate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Tejaswi K. C. , Taeyoung Lee

We propose a hierarchy of kinetic and macroscopic models for a system consisting of a large number of interacting pedestrians. The basic interaction rules are derived from earlier work where the dangerousness level of an interaction with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Pierre Degond , Cécile Appert-Rolland , Julien Pettré , Guy Theraulaz

We present a novel method for analysing socio-spatial segregation in cities by considering constraints imposed by transportation networks. Using a multilayered network approach, we model the interaction probabilities of socio-economic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-27 Mateo Neira , Carlos Molinero , Stephen Marshall , Elsa Arcaute

Routing choices of walking pedestrians in geometrically complex environments are regulated by the interplay of a multitude of factors such as local crowding, (estimated) time to destination, (perceived) comfort. As individual choices…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-03 Alessandro Gabbana , Federico Toschi , Philip Ross , Antal Haans , Alessandro Corbetta

We analyze the dynamics of room evacuation for mixed populations that include both competitive and cooperative individuals through numerical simulations using the social force model. Cooperative agents represent well-trained individuals who…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-05-17 Amir Zablotsky , Marcelo N Kuperman , Sebastián Bouzat

In this survey we consider mathematical models and methods recently developed to control crowd dynamics, with particular emphasis on egressing pedestrians. We focus on two control strategies: The first one consists in using special agents,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-25 Giacomo Albi , Emiliano Cristiani , Lorenzo Pareschi , Daniele Peri

Extensive research in pedestrian dynamics has primarily focused on crowded conditions and associated phenomena, such as lane formation, evacuation, etc. Several force-based models have been developed to predict the behavior in these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Kanika Jain , Shankar Prawesh , Indranil Saha Dalal , Anurag Tripathi

Mean-field game theory relies on approximating games that are intractable to model due to a very large to infinite population of players. While these kinds of games can be solved analytically via the associated system of partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Anna C. M. Thöni , Yoram Bachrach , Tal Kachman

In this paper, we study a spatial model for dormancy in random environment via a two-type branching random walk in continuous-time, where individuals can switch between dormant and active states through spontaneous switching independent of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Helia Shafigh

The relative dynamics in collision avoidance between individual pedestrians and dyads has been recently studied, and it was shown that individuals may intrude dyads that are not socially interacting. Building on this, our current study…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-11 Adrien Gregorj , Zeynep Yücel , Francesco Zanlugo , Takayuki Kanda

Understanding and modeling the dynamics of pedestrian crowds can help with designing and increasing the safety of civil facilities. A key feature of crowds is its intrinsic stochasticity, appearing even under very diluted conditions, due to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-22 Alessandro Corbetta , Chung-min Lee , Roberto Benzi , Adrian Muntean , Federico Toschi

We focus on the modeling and simulation of an infectious disease spreading in a medium size population occupying a confined environment, such as an airport terminal, for short periods of time. Because of the size of the crowd and venue, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-27 Daewa Kim , Annalisa Quaini

The dynamics of minority games with agents trading on different time scales is studied via dynamical mean-field theory. We analyze the case where the agents' decision-making process is deterministic and its stochastic generalization with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea De Martino