Statistical Physics of Synchronization

Shamik Gupta, Alessandro Campa, Stefano Ruffo

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book introduces and discusses the analysis of interacting many-body complex systems exhibiting spontaneous synchronization from the perspective o... Lees meer

The Physics of Stocks and Flows of Energy Systems

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• Using a system dynamics approach, this book illustrates the physics of fundamental accumulation processes (stocks and flows) across the demand and sup... Lees meer

Agent-Based Modelling of Social Networks in Labour-Education Market System

Alexander Tarvid

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book covers the modelling of human behaviour in the education and labour markets, which due to their interdependency are viewed as one system. Im... Lees meer

Multiplex Networks

Emanuele Cozzo, Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda, Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues, Yamir Moreno

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book provides the basis of a formal language and explores its possibilities in the characterization of multiplex networks. Armed with the formali... Lees meer

Bursty Human Dynamics

Márton Karsai, Hang-Hyun Jo, Kimmo Kaski

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour. It presents common and alternative underst... Lees meer

From Silos to Network: A New Kind of Science for Management

Domenico Lepore, Angela Montgomery, Giovanni Siepe, Francesco Siepe

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book provides the conceptual framework and a comprehensive guide to the principles, methods and tools for managing organizations. The authors int... Lees meer

Improving Human Performance in Dynamic Tasks

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex, dynamic tasks. The defining characteristics of a dynamic decision task ... Lees meer

Network Role Mining and Analysis

Derek Doran

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This brief presents readers with a summary of classic, modern, and state-of-the-art methods for discovering the roles of entities in networks (includi... Lees meer

Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics

Roland Bouffanais

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• The book is about the key elements required for designing, building and controlling effective artificial swarms comprised of multiple moving physical ... Lees meer

Maximum-Entropy Networks

Tiziano Squartini, Diego Garlaschelli

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book is an introduction to maximum-entropy models of random graphs with given topological properties and their applications. Its original contrib... Lees meer

Performing Complexity: Building Foundations for the Practice of Complex Thinking

Ana Teixeira de Melo

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it. In this book, the author ... Lees meer

Statistical Physics and Computational Methods for Evolutionary Game Theory

Marco Alberto Javarone

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book presents an introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory (EGT) which is an emerging field in the area of complex systems attracting the attentio... Lees meer

Citation Analysis and Dynamics of Citation Networks

Michael Golosovsky

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book deals with the science of science by applying network science methods to citation networks and uniquely presents a physics-inspired model of... Lees meer

Data Science for Social Good

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book is a collection of reflections by thought leaders at first-mover organizations in the exploding field of "Data Science for Social Good", mea... Lees meer

Systems Thinking for Sustainability Education in Business Schools

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book delves into the current state and future prospects of systems thinking and sustainability education within business schools. It meticulously... Lees meer

Why We Live in Hierarchies?

Anna Zafeiris, Tamás Vicsek

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy. To do so,... Lees meer

Applied Artificial Intelligence: Where AI Can Be Used in Business

Francesco Corea

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book deals with artificial intelligence (AI) and its several applications. It is not an organic text that should be read from the first page onwa... Lees meer

Information Adaptation: The Interplay Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information in Cognition

Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This monograph demonstrates the interplay between Shannon information and semantic information in cognition. It shows that Shannon's information acts ... Lees meer

A Multidisciplinary Framework of Information Propagation Online

Susannah B F Paletz, Brooke E Auxier, Ewa M Golonka

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book presents a broad, multidisciplinary review of the factors that have been shown to or might influence sharing information on social media, re... Lees meer

Agent-Based Modeling of Social Conflict

Carlos M Lemos

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This Brief revisits and extends Epstein's classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social confli... Lees meer

Computational Personality Analysis

Yair Neuman

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• The emergence of intelligent technologies, sophisticated natural language processing methodologies and huge textual repositories, invites a new approa... Lees meer

Target in Control

Andrzej K Nowak, Robin R Vallacher, Agnieszka Rychwalska, Magdalena Roszczyńska-Kurasińska, Karolina Ziembowicz, Mikolaj Biesaga, Marta Kacprzyk-Murawska

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus provid... Lees meer

Fractal Patterns with MATLAB

Santo Banerjee, A Gowrisankar, Komandla Mahipal Reddy

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book presents the iterative beauty of fractals and fractal functions graphically with the aid of MATLAB programming. The fractal images generated... Lees meer

Non-Dissipative Effects in Nonequilibrium Systems

Christian Maes

• Paperback | Engels | Springerbriefs in Complexity
• This book introduces and discusses both the fundamental aspects and the measurability of applications of time-symmetric kinetic quantities, outlining ... Lees meer