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The field of human-human-robot interaction (HHRI) uses social robots to positively influence how humans interact with each other. This objective requires models of human understanding that consider multiple humans in an interaction as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Hifza Javed , Nawid Jamali

Empirical complex systems can be characterized not only by pairwise interactions, but also by higher-order (group) interactions influencing collective phenomena, from metabolic reactions to epidemics. Nevertheless, higher-order networks'…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-01 Maxime Lucas , Luca Gallo , Arsham Ghavasieh , Federico Battiston , Manlio De Domenico

A social interaction is a social exchange between two or more individuals,where individuals modify and adjust their behaviors in response to their interaction partners. Our social interactions are one of most fundamental aspects of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Behnaz Nojavanasghari , Yuchi Huang , Saad Khan

In the last twenty years network science has proven its strength in modelling many real-world interacting systems as generic agents, the nodes, connected by pairwise edges. Yet, in many relevant cases, interactions are not pairwise but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-26 Timoteo Carletti , Federico Battiston , Giulia Cencetti , Duccio Fanelli

Understanding how group interactions influence opinion dynamics is fundamental to the study of collective behavior. In this work, we propose and study a model of opinion dynamics on $d$-uniform hypergraphs, where individuals interact…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Thierry Njougouo , Timoteo Carletti , Elio Tuci

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a common claim in the recent literature on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-20 Tiago P. Peixoto , Leto Peel , Thilo Gross , Manlio De Domenico

Ecological models traditionally explain stability and coexistence through pairwise interactions among species. These interactions can also involve groups of three or more species, higher-order interactions, which recent theory suggests can…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-07 Marc Duran-Sala , Sandro Meloni , Violeta Calleja-Solanas

From pedestrians to Kuramoto oscillators, interactions between agents govern how dynamical systems evolve in space and time. Discovering how these agents relate to each other has the potential to improve our understanding of the often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yulong Yang , Bowen Feng , Keqin Wang , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Adji Bousso Dieng , Christine Allen-Blanchette

A social interaction (so-called higher-order event/interaction) can be regarded as the activation of the hyperlink among the corresponding individuals. Social interactions can be, thus, represented as higher-order temporal networks, that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-17 Mathieu Jung-Muller , Alberto Ceria , Huijuan Wang

Dynamical systems across many disciplines are modeled as interacting particles or agents, with interaction rules that depend on a very small number of variables (e.g. pairwise distances, pairwise differences of phases, etc...), functions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Jinchao Feng , Mauro Maggioni , Patrick Martin , Ming Zhong

Cooperation is fundamental to human societies, and the interaction structure among individuals profoundly shapes its emergence and evolution. In real-world scenarios, cooperation prevails in multi-group (higher-order) populations, beyond…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-28 Dini Wang , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Jie Chen , Gang Yan

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

Understanding human mobility is essential for applications ranging from urban planning to public health. Traditional mobility models such as flow networks and colocation matrices capture only pairwise interactions between discrete…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Prathyush Sambaturu , Bernardo Gutierrez , Moritz U. G. Kraemer

We present a novel model to simulate real social networks of complex interactions, based in a granular system of colliding particles (agents). The network is build by keeping track of the collisions and evolves in time with correlations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Gonzalez , P. G. Lind , H. J. Herrmann

Cooperation enables teams to solve complex problems that one individual alone cannot address. In science, collaborative teams have become the predominant way through which progress is achieved. These scientific collaborations arise though…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-04 Emma Zajdela , Nicholas W. Landry

Many real systems are strongly characterized by collective cooperative phenomena whose existence and properties still need a satisfactory explanation. Coherently with their collective nature, they call for new and more accurate descriptions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-30 Giulio Burgio , Joan T. Matamalas , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

Modeling higher-order interactions (HOI) has emerged as a crucial challenge in complex systems analysis, as many phenomena cannot be fully captured by pairwise relationships alone. Hypergraphs, which generalize graphs by allowing…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-31 Catherine Matias

This paper is concerned with mathematical modeling of intelligent systems, such as human crowds and animal groups. In particular, the focus is on the emergence of different self-organized patterns from non-locality and anisotropy of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

Homophily is the seemingly ubiquitous tendency for people to connect and interact with other individuals who are similar to them. This is a well-documented principle and is fundamental for how society organizes. Although many social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Nate Veldt , Austin R. Benson , Jon Kleinberg

Many social interactions are group-based, yet their role in social polarization remains largely unexplored. To bridge this gap here we introduce a higher-order framework that takes into account both group interactions and homophily. We find…