Quantitative sociodynamics. Stochastic methods and models of social interaction processes. Transl. from the German by Richard Calek and Dirk Helbing
This book provides some new and powerful methods for a quantitative and dynamic description of social phenomena based on models for behavioral changes due to individual interaction processes. The methods mainly originate from statistical physics (stochastic processes), synergetics (self-organization phenomena of nonlinearly interacting elements) and chaos theory, but they have proved to be very useful in various other fields like chemistry, biology, and economics. The applicability of these methods to social phenomena is carefully discussed. By incorporating decision theoretical approaches a fundamental model is established and verified. It includes as special cases many recently proposed models, e.g. the logistic equation for limited growth processes, the gravity model for exchange processes, some diffusion models for the spread of information, evolutionary game theory for cooperation and competition processes and a social field theory describing behavioral changes by dynamic force fields. It is found that this model implies many new results in behavioral sciences. A variety of examples including opinion formation, migration, social field theory, self-organization of behavioral conventions, behavior of customers and voters is presented and illustrated by using the results of computer simulation. The book is directed first to natural scientists who are interested in a comprehensive overview of stochastic methods and their application to interdisciplinary topics. It is also relevant for social scientists who are engaged in mathematical sociology, decision theory, rational choice approaches, or general system theory. It is assumed that the reader possesses basic mathematical knowledge in calculus and linear algebra.
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- A self-referential agent-based model that consists of a large number of agents moving stochastically in a discrete bounded domain.
- Simulation of social processes: application to social learning
- Stationary self-organized states in many-particle systems with ternary interactions
- The behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the master equation
- Phase transitions in social impact models of opinion formation
- Modelling enterprise networks: a master equation approach
- Spatial self-organization in three-component mixtures
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- Stochastic resonance as a model for financial market crashes and bubbles
- An infinite continuous model which derives from a finite discrete model describing the time evolution of the density of firms.
- Blowing-up solutions to the Cauchy problem for the master equation
- The Cauchy problem for the nonlinear integro-partial differential equation in quantitative sociodynamics.
- The behavior of stochastic agent-based models when the number of agents and the time variable tend to infinity
- The beneficial role of random strategies in social and financial systems
- Occurrence probabilities of stochastic paths.
- Adaptive rewiring of links in a network: jammed states
- A model and simulation for homeorhesis in the motion of a single individual
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- Order book, financial markets, and self-organized criticality
- A quantitative tour of the social sciences.
- Nonlinear Boltzmann equation for the homogeneous isotropic case: minimal deterministic \texttt{Matlab} program
- Physics and social science -- the approach of synergetics
- Chaos and fractals in fish school motion
- Statistical and physical paradigms in the social sciences
- A mathematical modeling approach to the formation of urban and rural areas: convergence of global solutions of the mixed problem for the master equation in sociodynamics
- Dynamics of Cournot and Bertrand firms: exploring imitation and replicator processes
- A mathematical-model approach to human population explosions caused by migration
- The Kramers-Moyal expansion of the master equation that describes human migration in a bounded domain
- A geometrical similarity between migration of human population and diffusion of biological particles
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