Evolution, Money, War, and Computers

Oliveira, S. Moss de; Oliveira, Paulo Murilo Castro de; Stauffer, Dietrich

doi:10.1007/978-3-322-91009-7

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“…Economy Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz [4] wrote: "I believe that microscopic market simulations have an important role to play in economics and finance. If it takes people from outside economics and finance -perhaps physicists -to demonstrate this role, it won't be for the first time that outsiders have made substantial contributions to these fields."…”

Section: Economics: Yesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to statistical physics outside physics

Stauffer

2004

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

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Section: Economics: Yesmentioning

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Introduction to statistical physics outside physics

Stauffer

2004

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

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“…The concepts and techniques of statistical physics are being used nowadays to study several aspects of complex systems [1] many of which, till a few decades ago, used to fall outside the traditional domain of physical systems [2]. Physical-, chemical-, earth-, biological-and social-sciences as well as technology meet at this frontier area of inter-disciplinary research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Statistical physics of vehicular traffic and some related systems

2000

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In the so-called "microscopic" models of vehicular traffic, attention is paid explicitly to each individual vehicle each of which is represented by a "particle"; the nature of the "interactions" among these particles is determined by the way the vehicles influence each others' movement. Therefore, vehicular traffic, modeled as a system of interacting "particles" driven far from equilibrium, offers the possibility to study various fundamental aspects of truly nonequilibrium systems which are of current interest in statistical physics. Analytical as well as numerical techniques of statistical physics are being used to study these models to understand rich variety of physical phenomena exhibited by vehicular traffic. Some of these phenomena, observed in vehicular traffic under different circumstances, include transitions from one dynamical phase to another, criticality and self-organized criticality, metastability and hysteresis, phase-segregation, etc. In this critical review, written from the perspective of statistical physics, we explain the guiding principles behind all the main theoretical approaches. But we present detailed discussions on the results obtained mainly from the so-called "particle-hopping" models, particularly emphasizing those which have been formulated in recent years using the language of cellular automata.

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“…Here we check if the Penna ageing model, suitably modified, allows for self-organization of altruism in the sense that the old make sacrifices for the young, or the young for the old. The Penna bitstring model [2,3,4] is based on Medawar's half-century old mutationaccumulation hypothesis: Dangerous mutations killing an organism in young age will not be transmitted to future generations, while those affecting old age will be given on to the offspring. This model gave good agreement with the exponential increase of mortality at middle age (Gompertz law).…”

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confidence: 99%