There are diverse mechanisms driving the evolution of social networks. A key open question dealing with understanding their evolution is: How do various preferential linking mechanisms produce networks with different features? In this paper we first empirically study preferential linking...

We propose a revised social force model to simulate the pedestrian counter flow through a bottleneck. Spatial and temporal separation rules are involved in this model so as to reproduce these self-organizing movement patterns of pedestrians, including oscillatory flow and three classes of lane...

In this paper, we show how to study the evolution of a complex system, given imprecise knowledge about the state of the system and the dynamics laws. It will be shown that dynamics of these systems is equivalent to Lagrangian (or Hamiltonian) mechanics in a n+1-dimensional space, where n is a...

With the rapid development of information networks, negative impacts of rumor propagation become more serious. Nowadays, knowing the mechanisms of rumor propagation and having an efficient official rumor refutation plan play very important roles in reducing losses and ensuring social safety. In...

Discovering motifs in protein–protein interaction networks is becoming a current major challenge in computational biology, since the distribution of the number of network motifs can reveal significant systemic differences among species. However, this task can be computationally expensive...

Currently, a complexity-class problem is proving the existence of one-way permutations: one-to-one and onto maps that are computationally ‘easy’, while their inverses are computationally ‘hard’. In what follows, we make use of Bennett’s algorithm of the reversible Turing machine...

The problem of commodity price determination in a market-based, capitalist economy has a long and contentious history. Neoclassical microeconomic theories are based typically on marginal utility assumptions, while classical macroeconomic theories tend to be value-based. In the current work, I...

The dynamics of pedestrian flows can be captured in a continuum modelling framework. However, compared to vehicular flow, this is a much more challenging task. In particular the integration of flow propagation and path choice are known to be problematic. Furthermore, pedestrian flow is...

We study the synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators on small-world networks. Firstly, we analyze the impact of coupling strength, rewiring probability and average degree of networks on the phase synchronization in weak coupled system. Then, by increasing the coupling strength, we find an...

We present the stochastic model for queueing at two tollgates with line changing of vehicles to take into account fluctuating inflow and outflow. We study the jam formation and its transition in front of two tollgates on a highway. The line changing between two queues of vehicles has an...