772 citations · 5.5k across the 80 of their papers we have counts for
6 papers · 1 filter
Is There a Real-Estate Bubble in the US?
Wei-Xing Zhou, Didier Sornette
We analyze the quarterly average sale prices of new houses sold in the USA as a whole, in the northeast, midwest, south, and west of the USA, in each of the 50 states and the Distr…
Fundamental Factors versus Herding in the 2000-2005 US Stock Market and Prediction
Wei-Xing Zhou, Didier Sornette
We present a general methodology to incorporate fundamental economic factors to our previous theory of herding to describe bubbles and antibubbles. We start from the strong form of…
Process Flow Diagram of an Ammonia Plant as a Complex Network
Zhi-Qiang Jiang, Wei-Xing Zhou, Bin Xu +1
Complex networks have attracted increasing interests in almost all disciplines of natural and social sciences. However, few efforts have been afforded in the field of chemical engi…
Self-fulfilling Ising Model of Financial Markets
Wei-Xing Zhou, Didier Sornette
We study a dynamical Ising model of agents' opinions (buy or sell) with coupling coefficients reassessed continuously in time according to how past external news (magnetic field) h…
Importance of Positive Feedbacks and Over-confidence in a Self-Fulfilling Ising Model of Financial Markets
Didier Sornette, Wei-Xing Zhou
Following a long tradition of physicists who have noticed that the Ising model provides a general background to build realistic models of social interactions, we study a model of f…
Shape complexity and fractality of fracture surfaces of swelled isotactic polypropylene with supercritical carbon dioxide
Wei-Xing Zhou, Bin Li, Tao Liu +3
We have investigated the fractal characteristics and shape complexity of the fracture surfaces of swelled isotactic polypropylene Y1600 in supercritical carbon dioxide fluid throug…