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physics.soc-ph2014★ 626 cited
Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute
Dirk Helbing, Dirk Brockmann, Thomas Chadefaux +8
We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective…
physics.soc-ph2014★ 57 cited
Opinion Formation and the Collective Dynamics of Risk Perception
Mehdi Moussaid
The formation of collective opinion is a complex phenomenon that results from the combined effects of mass media exposure and social influence between individuals. The present work…