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physics.soc-ph2016★ 119 cited
Complex systems: physics beyond physics
Yurij Holovatch, Ralph Kenna, Stefan Thurner
Complex systems are characterized by specific time-dependent interactions among their many constituents. As a consequence they often manifest rich, non-trivial and unexpected behav…
physics.soc-ph2016★ 86 cited
Formation of homophily in academic performance: students prefer to change their friends rather than performance
Ivan Smirnov, Stefan Thurner
Homophily, the tendency of individuals to associate with others who share similar traits, has been identified as a major driving force in the formation and evolution of social ties…
physics.soc-ph2016★ 17 cited
Extreme robustness of scaling in sample space reducing processes explains Zipf's law in diffusion on directed networks
Bernat Corominas-Murtra, Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner
It has been shown recently that a specific class of path-dependent stochastic processes, which reduce their sample space as they unfold, lead to exact scaling laws in frequency and…