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Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words
Alexander M. Petersen, Joel N. Tenenbaum, Shlomo Havlin +2
We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages…
Proceedings 8th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems
Josep Silva, Francesco Tiezzi
This volume contains the final and revised versions of the papers presented at the 8th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems (WWV 2012).…
Statistical Agent Based Modelization of the Phenomenon of Drug Abuse
Riccardo Di Clemente, Luciano Pietronero
We introduce a statistical agent based model to describe the phenomenon of drug abuse and its dynamical evolution at the individual and global level. The agents are heterogeneous w…
Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Polydisperse Hard Spheres
Antonio Scala
Standard algorithms for the numerical integration of the Langevin equation require that interactions are slowly varying during to the integration timestep. This in not the case for…
Persistence and Uncertainty in the Academic Career
Alexander M. Petersen, Massimo Riccaboni, H. Eugene Stanley +1
Understanding how institutional changes within academia may affect the overall potential of science requires a better quantitative representation of how careers evolve over time. S…