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Agent-based neutral competition in two-community networks
Kota Ishida, Beata Oborny, Michael T. Gastner
Competition between alternative states is an essential process in social and biological networks. Neutral competition can be represented by an unbiased random drift process in whic…
Voter model on networks partitioned into two cliques of arbitrary sizes
Michael T. Gastner, Kota Ishida
The voter model is an archetypal stochastic process that represents opinion dynamics. In each update, one agent is chosen uniformly at random. The selected agent then copies the cu…
Scaling and entropy in p-median facility location along a line
Michael T. Gastner
The p-median problem is a common model for optimal facility location. The task is to place p facilities (e.g., warehouses or schools) in a heterogeneously populated space such that…
The complex network of global cargo ship movements
Pablo Kaluza, Andrea Kölzsch, Michael T. Gastner +1
Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods, and the spread of invasive species. With 90% of world trade carried by sea, the global network…
The Price of Anarchy in Transportation Networks: Efficiency and Optimality Control
Hyejin Youn, Michael T. Gastner, Hawoong Jeong
Uncoordinated individuals in human society pursuing their personally optimal strategies do not always achieve the social optimum, the most beneficial state to the society as a whol…