In this paper, we propose an opinion dynamics model in order to investigate opinion evolution and interactions and the behavior of individuals. By introducing social influence and its feedback mechanism, the proposed model can highlight the heterogeneity of individuals and reproduce realistic...

In this paper, we study epidemic spreading in metapopulation networks wherein each node represents a subpopulation symbolizing a city or an urban area and links connecting nodes correspond to the human traveling routes among cities. Differently from previous studies, we introduce a heterogeneous...

Cascading failures are one of the main reasons for blackouts in electric power transmission grids. The economic cost of such failures is in the order of tens of billion dollars annually. The loading level of power system is a key aspect to determine the amount of the damage caused by cascading...

Community structure is a common phenomenon in complex networks, and it has been shown that some communities in complex networks often overlap each other. So in this paper we propose a new algorithm to detect overlapping community structure in complex networks. To identify the overlapping...

We introduce various quantitative and mathematical definitions for price momentum of financial instruments. The price momentum is quantified with velocity and mass concepts originated from the momentum in physics. By using the physical momentum of price as a selection criterion, the weekly...

Within this work the Nagel–Schreckenberg (NS) cellular automata is used to simulate a basic cyclic road network. Results from SwitchEV, a real world Electric Vehicle trial which has collected more than two years of detailed electric vehicle data, are used to quantify the results of the NS...

We investigate a time-asymmetric delta-kicked model for the quantum ratchet effect, in which a flashing potential acts on a particle at unequal time intervals. Ratchet currents emerge when quantum resonances are excited. The currents in time-asymmetric models may be stronger than those found in...

Recently, more and more biological experiments have indicated that noise plays an important role in bistable systems, such as the case of the bimodal population distribution in the genetic toggle switch. In this paper, we further verify that noises in degradation rates can indeed induce...

Percolation offers acknowledged models of random media when the relevant medium characteristics can be described as a binary feature. However, when considering habitat modeling in ecology, a natural constraint comes from nearest-neighbor correlations between the suitable/unsuitable states of the...

This paper presents a procedure for studying tracking synchronization of networked Lagrangian systems via impulsive control, where each agent is allowed to be nonidentical, even uncertain dynamics. Some algebraic criteria for tracking synchronization without and with time-delays are established...