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Homogeneous Symmetrical Threshold Model with Nonconformity: Independence versus Anticonformity
Complexity, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 We study two variants of the modified Watts threshold model with a noise (with nonconformity, in the terminology of social psychology) on a complete graph. Within the first version, a noise is introduced via so‐called independence, whereas in the second version anticonformity plays the role of a noise, which destroys the order.
Bartłomiej Nowak +2 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Consensus decision-making in social groups strongly depends on communication links that determine to whom individuals send, and from whom they receive, information.
Sharaj Kunjar +6 more
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Complexity, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Recently, there has been an increasing number of empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that spread of avalanches of microposts on social networks, such as Twitter, is associated with some sociopolitical events. Typical examples of such events are political elections and protest movements.
Andrey Dmitriev +3 more
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Land Degradation &Development, Volume 29, Issue 10, Page 3639-3652, October 2018., 2018 Abstract This paper argues that a systems' thinking and explicit modeling approach is needed to address noted weaknesses (in terms of practicality and usefulness) in integrated water resource management. A process of coupling complex regional land use, economy, and water system interactions in integrated modeling is demonstrated with proof‐of‐concept ...
Haozhi Pan +4 more
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Complexity of a Microblogging Social Network in the Framework of Modern Nonlinear Science
Complexity, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018 Recent developments in nonlinear science have caused the formation of a new paradigm called the paradigm of complexity. The self‐organized criticality theory constitutes the foundation of this paradigm. To estimate the complexity of a microblogging social network, we used one of the conceptual schemes of the paradigm, namely, the system of key signs of
Andrey Dmitriev +3 more
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How Network Topologies Impact Project Alliance Performance: Evidence from the Movie Industry
Entropy, 2019 In many industries, partners are interconnected in project alliances that have limited lifespans and clearly-defined boundaries. The transparency of the movie industry provides a unique opportunity to study how alliance network topologies impact the ...
Xin-Jie Zhang +4 more
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Empirical Analysis and Agent‐Based Modeling of the Lithuanian Parliamentary Elections
Complexity, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017 We analyze a parties’ vote share distribution across the polling stations during the Lithuanian parliamentary elections of 1992, 2008, and 2012. We find that the distribution is rather well fitted by the Beta distribution. To reproduce this empirical observation, we propose a simple multistate agent‐based model of the voting behavior.
Aleksejus Kononovicius +1 more
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PhysicsIn this study, we propose how to use objective arguments grounded in statistical mechanics concepts in order to obtain a single number, obtained after aggregation, which would allow for the ranking of “agents”, “opinions”, etc., all defined in a very ...
Marcel Ausloos +2 more
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The Consensus Problem in Polities of Agents with Dissimilar Cognitive Architectures
Entropy, 2022 Agents interacting with their environments, machine or otherwise, arrive at decisions based on their incomplete access to data and their particular cognitive architecture, including data sampling frequency and memory storage limitations.
Damian Radosław Sowinski +5 more
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Hydrosocial Territories Research: An Overview
WIREs Water, Volume 12, Issue 3, May/June 2025.View of El Quimbo dam and reservoir on the Magdalena River, Colombia. Photo Credits: Patrick Hostert. ABSTRACT Hydrosocial territories scholarship has contributed to advancing relational, power‐sensitive, multiscalar understandings of water and its governance.
Rossella Alba +4 more
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