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Acquaintance role for decision making and exchanges in social networks
Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Raffaella Burioni +1
We model a social network by a random graph whose nodes represent agents and links between two of them stand for a reciprocal interaction; each agent is also associated to a binary…
New perspectives in the equilibrium statistical mechanics approach to social and economic sciences
Elena Agliari, Adriano Barra, Raffaella Burioni +1
In this work we review some recent development in the mathematical modelling of quantitative sociology by means of statistical mechanics. After a short pedagogical introduction to…
Parameter Evaluation of a Simple Mean-Field Model of Social Interaction
Ignacio Gallo, Adriano Barra, Pierluigi Contucci
The aim of this work is to implement a statistical mechanics theory of social interaction, generalizing econometric discrete choice models. A class of simple mean field discrete mo…
Tackling climate change through energy efficiency: mathematical models for evidence-based public policy recommendations
Federico Gallo, Pierluigi Contucci, Adam Coutts +1
Promoting and increasing energy efficiency is a promising method of reducing CO2 emissions and avoiding the potentially devastating effects of climate change. The question is: How…
Equilibria of culture contact derived from ingroup and outgroup attitudes
Pierluigi Contucci, Ignacio Gallo, Stefano Ghirlanda
Modern societies feature an increasing contact between cultures, yet we have a poor understanding of what the outcomes might be. Here we consider a mathematical model of contact be…
Phase transitions in social sciences: two-populations mean field theory
Pierluigi Contucci, Ignacio Gallo, Giulia Menconi
A new mean field statistical mechanics model of two interacting groups of spins is introduced and the phase transition studied in terms of their relative size. A jump of the averag…