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most citedInteraction Ruling Animal Collective Behaviour Depends on Topological rather than Metric Distance: Evidence from a Field Study

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physics.soc-ph20112 cited

Symmetry-breaking phase transition in a dynamical decision model

Gaultier Lambert, Guillaume Chevereau, Eric Bertin

We consider a simple decision model in which a set of agents randomly choose one of two competing shops selling the same perishable products (typically food). The satisfaction of a…

physics.soc-ph20111 cited

Commuter networks and community detection: a method for planning sub regional areas

Andrea De Montis, Simone Caschili, Alessandro Chessa

A major issue for policy makers and planners is the definition of the "ideal" regional partition, i.e. the delimitation of sub-regional domains showing a sufficient level of homoge…

physics.soc-ph201028 cited

Irrelevance of information outflow in opinion dynamics models

Claudio Castellano, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

The Sznajd model for opinion dynamics has attracted a large interest as a simple realization of the psychological principle of social validation. As its most salient feature, it ha…

physics.soc-ph201022 cited

Socio-economic utility and chemical potential

Rémi Lemoy, Eric Bertin, Pablo Jensen

In statistical physics, the conservation of particle number results in the equalization of the chemical potential throughout a system at equilibrium. In contrast, the homogeneity o…

physics.soc-ph20086 cited

Collaborate, compete and share

Emanuele Pugliese, Claudio Castellano, Matteo Marsili +1

We introduce and study a model of an interacting population of agents who collaborate in groups which compete for limited resources. Groups are formed by random matching agents and…

physics.soc-ph2007

Critical transient in the Barabási model of human dynamics

Andrea Gabrielli, Guido Caldarelli

We introduce an exact probabilistic description for L=2 of the Barabási model for the dynamics of a list of L tasks. This permits to study the problem out of stationarity, and to s…