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Discontinuous phase transition in an open-ended Naming Game
Nuno Crokidakis, Edgardo Brigatti
In this work we study on a 2-dimensional square lattice a recent version of the Naming Game, an agent-based model used for describing the emergence of linguistic structures. The sy…
A three-state kinetic agent-based model to analyze tax evasion dynamics
Nuno Crokidakis
In this work we study the problem of tax evasion on a fully-connected population. For this purpose, we consider that the agents may be in three different states, namely honest tax…
Competition and evolution in restricted space
Fabricio L. Forgerini, Nuno Crokidakis
We study the competition and the evolution of nodes embedded in Euclidean restricted spaces. The population evolves by a branching process in which new nodes are generated when up…
Stylized facts in Brazilian vote distributions
Angelo Mondaini Calvão, Nuno Crokidakis, Celia Anteneodo
Elections, specially in countries such as Brazil with an electorate of the order of 100 million people, yield large-scale data-sets embodying valuable information on the dynamics t…
Phase transition in kinetic exchange opinion models with independence
Nuno Crokidakis
In this work we study the critical behavior of a three-state (, , ) opinion model with independence. Each agent has a probability to act as independent, i.e., he/she…
The first shall be last: selection-driven minority becomes majority
Nuno Crokidakis, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira
Street demonstrations occur across the world. In Rio de Janeiro, June/July 2013, they reach beyond one million people. A wrathful reader of \textit{O Globo}, leading newspaper in t…