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Simulation of language competition by physicists
Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer
Following Abrams and Strogatz 2003 and Patriarca and Leppanen 2004, five other physics groups independently started to simulate the competition of languages, as opposed to the evol…
Discrete Simulation of the Dynamics of Opinions about Extremism
Dietrich Stauffer, Muhammad Sahimi
We propose a discrete model for how opinion about a given phenomenon, about which various groups of a population have different degrees of enthusiasm, such as fanaticism and extrem…
Sociophysics Simulations IV: Hierarchies of Bonabeau et al
Dietrich Stauffer
The model of Bonabeau et al explains social hierarchies as random: People keep a memory of recent fights, and winners have a higher probability to win again. The question of phase…
Sociophysics Simulations II: Opinion Dynamics
Dietrich Stauffer
Individuals have opinions but can change them under the influence of others. The recent models of Sznajd (missionaries), of Deffuant et al. (negotiators), and of Krause and Hegselm…
Microscopic and Macroscopic Simulation of Competition between Languages
Dietrich Stauffer, Christian Schulze
The similarity of the evolution of human languages (or alphabets, bird songs, >...) to biological evolution of species is utilized to study with up to people the rise and fa…
Sociophysics Simulations I: Language Competition
Christian Schulze, Dietrich Stauffer
Using a bit-string model similar to biological simulations, the competition between different languages is simulated both without and with spatial structure. We compare our agent-b…