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9783527406708
With the intent of unifying the p physical, biological, economic and social sciences, complexity research has made considerable progress in recent years; in particular in the areas traditionally covered by economics or sociology. Econophysics and Sociophysics: Trends and Perspectives provides the reader with up-to-date reviews by leading experts in the respective fields, on major developments in the interdisciplinary areas of physics, economics and sociology. This is the first book providing a panoramic view of these developments in the last one and a half decades. From the contents: Understanding and Managing the Future Evolution of a Competitive Multi-Agent Population A Review of Empirical Studies and Methods of Income Distributions in Society Computer Simulation of Language Competition by Physicists Social Opinion Dynamics How a "Hit" is Born: The Emergence of Popularity from the Dynamics of Collective ChoiceChakraborti, Anirban is the author of 'Econophysics And Sociophysics Trends And Perspectives', published 2006 under ISBN 9783527406708 and ISBN 3527406700.
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