Research Lines. Dynamics and collective phenomena of social systems
Dynamics and collective phenomena of social systems
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Description
Social systems are prominent examples of complex systems. Concepts, tools and models aiming at identifying generic mechanisms underlying collective phenomena in these systems are developed with the use of Game Theory, Statistical Physics, Agent Based Models and Complex Networks Theory. Cooperation, cultural conflicts and problems of social consensus are examples of phenomena under study. New emphasis is on data driven research on socio-technical systems, including the impact of ICT, and in particular online social networks.
- Fragmentation Transitions in Network Coevolution Dynamics
- Cultural Dynamics
- Globalization-polarization transition, social networks, cultural drift and group formation
- Complexity and social dynamics
- Mass Media Effects in Cultural Dynamics
- Java applet for Axelrod's model for dissemination of culture.
- The voter model in complex networks
- Java applet for the Voter model
- Dynamics of language competition: social consensus in complex networks
- Java Applet for dynamics of language competition
- Neighborhood models of minority opinion spreading
- Java applet for the spreading of minority opinions
- Spatial Prisoners Dilemma in an Adaptative Network: The Emergence of Role Differentation
- Constructive effects induced by heterogeneity: an application to a model for opinion formation
- Parrondo's games:
- As a discrete ratchet
- A Fokker-Planck description
- Survival of the fittest?
- Finite size effects in the dynamics of opinion formation
- Hierarchies created by individuals: The structure of directory trees
- Dynamic Modeling of the Electric Power Network
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The roundtable: an agent-based model of conversation dynamics
Talk presented at the weekly sociomeeting seminar, on a recent paper by Mastrangeli, Schmidt and Lacasa published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
- Java Applet for Threshold models
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Divide and Conquer
Poster at VII Congreso de Física Estadística, Barcelona
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Effects of mixed dynamics in spin systems with conserved magnetization
Presented at the GISC workshop 2012, held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, on February 3, 2012.
Research Lines
- Complex systems. Nonlinear and Statistical Physics
- Quantum physics: photons, electrons and information
- Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics of Optoelectronic Devices
- Fluid dynamics, Biofluids, and Geophysical fluids
- Biological Physics and nonlinear phenomena in ecology and physiology
- Dynamics and collective phenomena of social systems
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