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The concept of entropy connects the number of possible configurations with the number of variables in large stochastic systems. Independent or weakly interacting variables render the number of configurations scale exponentially with the…

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Statistical mechanics explains the properties of macroscopic phenomena based on the movements of microscopic particles such as atoms and molecules. Movements of microscopic particles can be represented by large-scale interacting systems. In…

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In network science complex systems are represented as a mathematical graphs consisting of a set of nodes representing the components and a set of edges representing their interactions. The framework of networks has led to significant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-07 Alexandre Bovet , Hernán A. Makse

Understanding quantum many-body systems with long-range or infinite-range interactions is of relevance across a broad set of physical disciplines, including quantum optics, nuclear magnetic resonance and nuclear physics. From a theoretical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-27 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

This paper proposes a systems approach to social sciences based on mathematical framework derived from a generalization of the mathematical kinetic theory and on theoretical tools of game theory. Social systems are modeled as a living…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-14 Giulia Ajmone Marsan , Nicola Bellomo , Livio Gibelli

Comparing networks is essential for a number of downstream tasks, from clustering to anomaly detection. Despite higher-order interactions being critical for understanding the dynamics of complex systems, traditional approaches for network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-03 Helcio Felippe , Alec Kirkley , Federico Battiston

Theories of natural language and concepts have been unable to model the flexibility, creativity, context-dependence, and emergence, exhibited by words, concepts and their combinations. The mathematical formalism of quantum theory has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Diederik Aerts , Jan Broekaert , Liane Gabora , Sandro Sozzo

While including pairwise interactions in a regression model can better approximate response surface, fitting such an interaction model is a well-known difficult problem. In particular, analyzing contemporary high-dimensional datasets often…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-17 Hai Lu , Guo Yu

We introduce the notion of an approximation system as a generalization of Taylor approximation, and we give some first examples. Next we develop the general theory, including error bounds and a sufficient criterion for convergence. More…

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This paper is concerned with complex macroscopic behaviour arising in many-body systems through the combinations of competitive interactions and disorder, even with simple ingredients at the microscopic level. It attempts to indicate and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 David Sherrington

This article presents the mathematical background of general interactive systems. The first principle of designing a large system is to _divide and conquer_, which implies that we could possibly reduce human error if we divided a large…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Ichiroh Kanaya , Mayuko Kanazawa , Masataka Imura

The non-trivial structure of such complex systems makes the analysis of their collective behavior a challenge. The problem is even more difficult when the information is distributed across networks (e.g., communication networks in different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Carlo Spatocco , Giovanni Stilo , Carlotta Domeniconi , Alessandro D'Andrea

The intrinsic multivaluedness of interaction process, revealed in Part I of this series of papers, is interpreted as the origin of the true dynamical (in particular, quantum) chaos. The latter is causally deduced as unceasing series of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

Real-world systems are characterized by complex interactions of their internal degrees of freedom, while living in ever-changing environments whose net effect is to act as additional couplings. Here, we introduce a paradigmatic interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-23 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel Maria Busiello

Symbolic planning is a powerful technique to solve complex tasks that require long sequences of actions and can equip an intelligent agent with complex behavior. The downside of this approach is the necessity for suitable symbolic…

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The review presents general methods for treating complicated problems that cannot be solved exactly and whose solution encounters two major difficulties. First, there are no small parameters allowing for the safe use of perturbation theory…

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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 2022-06-14 Frank Dignum

We propose a generalization of small world networks, in which the reconnection of links is governed by a function that depends on the distance between the elements to be linked. An adequate choice of this function lets us control the…

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This paper will introduce a theory of emergent animal social complexity using various results from computational models and empirical results. These results will be organized into a vertical model of social complexity. This will support the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-18 Bradly Alicea

In this work, we have studied classical and quantum systems in interaction by means of geometric reduction procedure. The main target is the description in these terms of fundamental interactions. We have shown that, to describe in a…

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