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We address density control problems for large-scale multi-agent systems in leader-follower settings, where a group of controllable leaders must steer a population of followers toward a desired spatial distribution. Unlike prior work, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Beniamino Di Lorenzo , Gian Carlo Maffettone , Mario di Bernardo

Models of population growth and extinction are an increasingly popular subject of study. However, consequences of stochasticity and noise in shaping distributions and outcomes are not sufficiently explored. Here we consider a distributed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Bertrand Ottino-Löffler , Mehran Kardar

We here discuss the process of opinion formation in an open community where agents are made to interact and consequently update their beliefs. New actors (birth) are assumed to replace individuals that abandon the community (deaths). This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-07-28 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli , Alessio Guarino , Franco Bagnoli , Andrea Guazzini

This paper is mainly devoted to lay an empirical foundation for further research on complex spatial dynamics of two-population interaction. Based on the US population census data, a rural and urban population interaction model is developed.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-14 Yanguang Chen , Feng Xu

The phenomenon of gentrification of an urban area is characterized by the displacement of lower-income residents due to rising living costs and an influx of wealthier individuals. This study presents an agent-based model that simulates…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-07 Giovanni Mauro , Nicola Pedreschi , Renaud Lambiotte , Luca Pappalardo

We build upon the recent steady-state Penna model solution, Phys.Rev.Lett. 89, 288103 (2002), to study the population dynamics within the Penna model. We show, that any perturbation to the population can be broken into a collection of modes…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 J. B. Coe , Y. Mao

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

Populations are made up of an integer number of individuals and are subject to stochastic birth-death processes whose rates may vary in time. Useful quantities, like the chance of ultimate fixation, satisfy an appropriate difference…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-22 Jayant Pande , Nadav M. Shnerb

Many analyses of resource-allocation problems employ simplistic models of the population. Using the example of a resource-allocation problem of Marecek et al. [arXiv:1406.7639], we introduce rather a general behavioural model, where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jonathan Epperlein , Jakub Marecek

Agent-based modelling is a valuable approach for systems whose behaviour is driven by the interactions between distinct entities. They have shown particular promise as a means of modelling crowds of people in streets, public transport…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nick Malleson , Kevin Minors , Le-Minh Kieu , Jonathan A. Ward , Andrew A. West , Alison Heppenstall

We investigate the competition between barrier slowing down and proliferation induced superdiffusion in a model of population dynamics in a random force field. Numerical results in $d=1$ suggest that a new intermediate diffusion behaviour…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Irene Giardina , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Marc Mezard

We consider the general character of the spatial distribution of a population that grows through reproduction and subsequent local resettlement of new population members. We present several simple one and two-dimensional point placement…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 Jonathan Ozik , Brian R. Hunt , Edward Ott

The question of whether a population will persist or go extinct is of key interest throughout ecology and biology. Various mathematical techniques allow us to generate knowledge regarding individual behaviour, which can be analysed to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-28 Stuart T. Johnston , Matthew J. Simpson , Edmund J. Crampin

Essential to each other, growth and exploration are jointly observed in populations, be it alive such as animals and cells or inanimate such as goods and money. But their ability to move, crucial to cope with uncertainty and optimize…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-06 Thomas Gueudré , David Martin

In this paper we formulate a continuous opinion model that takes into account population growth, i.e. increase with time in the number of interacting agents $N(t)$. In our setting the population growth is governed by a generic growth rate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Ioannis Markou

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

We propose a stochastic model of evolution of wealth in a society of economic agents. In the model, an agent can be in two states: inactive and active. Transitions between the states occur at random time intervals. In the active state, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Indrani Bose , Subhasis Banerjee

Like other social animals and biological systems, human groups constantly exchange information. Network models provide a way of quantifying this process by representing the pathways of information propagation between individuals. Existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Niek Kerssies , Jose Segovia Martin , James Winters

Most spreading processes require spatial proximity between agents. The stationary state of spreading dynamics in a population of mobile agents thus depends on the interplay between the time and length scales involved in the epidemic process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-05 Jorge P. Rodríguez , Matteo Paoluzzi , Demian Levis , Michele Starnini

Motivated by empirical evidence on the interplay between geography, population density and societal interaction, we propose a generative process for the evolution of social structure in cities. Our analytical and simulation results predict…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-12 Wei Pan , Gourab Ghoshal , Coco Krumme , Manuel Cebrian , Alex Pentland
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