[P2P-F] important advance in network theory approaches

Michel Bauwens michel at p2pfoundation.net
Mon Oct 17 20:53:31 CEST 2011 

thanks guys!

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Paul B. Hartzog <
PaulBHartzog at paulbhartzog.org> wrote:

> For Brownian ( and other ) models of pedestrian ( and other) traffic
> flows Dirk Helbing is key.
> Early work is around 1998.
>
> A Mathematical Model for the Behavior of Pedestrians
> Helbing
> at arxiv.org, 18 May 1998
>
> Models for Pedestrian Behavior
> Helbing
> at arxiv.org, 13 May 1998
>
> Self-Organization Phenomena in Pedestrian Crowds
> Dirk Helbing and Peter Molnár, "Self-Organization
> Phenomena in Pedestrian Crowds," in Self-Organization of Complex
> Structures: From Individual to
> Collective Dynamics, ed. F Schweitzer (London: Gordon and Breach, 1997).
> at arxiv.org, 11 Jun 1998
>
> Social force model for pedestrian dynamics
> Dirk Helbing and Peter Molnar
> at arxiv.org, 20 May 1998
>
> "Helbing’s (1992) mathematical model of the flow of pedestrians going
> into different directions, and thus unintentionally hindering each
> other’s movements, in the same way that molecules in a fluid collide
> with other molecules, thus producing physical friction."
> Helbing D. (1992) A Fluid Dynamic Model for the Movement of
> Pedestrians, Complex Systems 6,
> 391-415
>
> "the behavioral force model of pedestrian motion"
> Self-organizing pedestrian movement
> Helbing, Molnar, Farkas, Bolay
> Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2001, volume 28, pages 361
> ^ 383
>
> “realistic traffic dynamics from which analysts using TRANSIMS
> Fire escape agent-based simulation (live simulation available at
> www.helbing.org”
> from
> Helbing, D., Farkas, I. & Vicsek, T. (2000) Nature (London) 407, 487– 490.
> mentioned in
> Agent-based modeling: Methods and techniques for
> simulating human systems
> Eric Bonabeau
> 7280 –7287 | PNAS | May 14, 2002 | vol. 99 | suppl. 3
> www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.082080899
>
> Illes Farkas, Dirk Helbing, and Tamas Vicsek, "Crowd Behaves as Excitable
> Media
> During Mexican Wave," Nature 2002,
>
> Also
>
> Mark Granovetter, " Threshold Models of Collective Behavior,"
> American Journal of Sociology 83, no. 6 ( 1978),
>
> Dussutour, A., Fourcassie´, V., Helbing, D., & Deneubourg, J.-L.
> (2004). Optimal traffic organization in ants
> under crowded conditions. Nature, 428(6978), 70 – 73.
>
> Eric Bonabeau, Marco Dorigo, and Guy Theraulaz, Swarm Intelligence : From
> Natural to Artificial Systems (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999),
>
> Steven H. Strogatz, Sync : The
> Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, 1st ed. (New York: Theia, 2003).
>
> Self-Assembling of Networks in an Agent-Based Model
> Frank Schweitzer
> Benno Tilch
> re: Brownian agents vis a vis “internal degrees of freedom”
> at arxiv.org, 11 Dec 2002
>
>
>
>
>
> hope that helps.
> it helped me :-)
> -p
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > try this
> https://www.zotero.org/groups/forwardfoundation/items/collectionKey/X4UGSC2Q
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Michel Bauwens
> > <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> >> any biblio for guidance?
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Michel Bauwens <
> michel at p2pfoundation.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > thanks Sam,
> >>> >
> >>> > this may be the case, but I see a lot of network theory literature,
> for
> >>> > example the much cited Reed's law, which ignores human volition ..
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> I can imagine. I think if you are interested in network theory, it is
> >>> definitely worth knowing the complex systems thinkers from throughout
> >>> the 1980's to present (if you do not already). Lots of great useful
> >>> work there.
> >>>
> >>> > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Michel Bauwens
> >>> >> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> >>> >> > Dear TOmas,
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > This is quite important in my opinion with network theory finally
> >>> >> > including
> >>> >> > human volition and abandoning reductionism,
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > I really hope you can look into this for discussion at our blog,
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > see
> http://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wisdom-about-crowds/ ;
> >>> >> > http://www.economist.com/node/18584096?story_id=18584096&fsrc=rss
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> >  Existing models of crowd behaviour do just that. They treat
> moving
> >>> >> > masses
> >>> >> > of humanity as though they were fluids. This works, up to a point.
> >>> >> > But
> >>> >> > it
> >>> >> > often fails to predict the changes that happen as a crowd’s
> density
> >>> >> > increases and its movement becomes chaotic. That is why Mehdi
> >>> >> > Moussaid
> >>> >> > of
> >>> >> > Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse, and his colleagues have
> made a
> >>> >> > radical innovation. Instead of treating the individual human
> beings
> >>> >> > in a
> >>> >> > crowd as if they were molecules, they have treated them as if they
> >>> >> > were
> >>> >> > human beings. They have, in other words, given them volition. Of
> >>> >> > course,
> >>> >> > the
> >>> >> > objective of someone in a moving crowd is usually fairly simple—to
> >>> >> > get
> >>> >> > somewhere and then stay there. But it is an objective,
> nevertheless.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Unless I am really missing something, this is absolutely not
> anything
> >>> >> new in the world of network sciences and complex systems
> >>> >> science/modeling/theory. In fact, practically every agent based
> >>> >> complex systems model applies simple rules to the agents and then
> runs
> >>> >> the model to see what will happen. This goes all the way back to
> John
> >>> >> Holland, Robert Axelrod, and others who pioneered complex systems
> >>> >> models. Read the article on The Economist itself to see why I am
> >>> >> having this reaction:
> >>> >> http://www.economist.com/node/18584096?story_id=18584096&fsrc=rss
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
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