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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-ph2013★ 69 cited
Understanding recurrent crime as system-immanent collective behavior
Matjaz Perc, Karsten Donnay, Dirk Helbing
Containing the spreading of crime is a major challenge for society. Yet, since thousands of years, no effective strategy has been found to overcome crime. To the contrary, empirica…