Robustness of network of networks (NON) has been studied only for dependency coupling (Gao et al., 2012) and only for connectivity coupling (Leicht and Souza, arxiv:0907.0894). The case of network of networks with both interdependent and interconnected links is more complicated, and also more...

Considering an old and recurrent problem of nonequilibrium statistical physics, namely, the microscopic study of the heat flow, we investigate the effects on the heat conduction due the addition of graded structures or long range interactions in some usual models given by chains of oscillators....

In this study, we analyze the reaction times obtained from participants in a psychomotor activity composed of a large number of trials without breaks. We numerically evaluate the learning factor directly obtained as the interevent time in the subsequent trials comparing two different blocks of...

We calculate the entropy of a chain of dimers placed on a one-dimensional lattice as a function of the density of monomers. We consider Np dimer chains with a number of monomers M=2 which may assume q-states (orientations) on the one-dimensional lattice. In this work we treated a simple model...

In this paper the two dimensional model of the investment in shares is presented. The shares prices from five different world stock exchanges (New York, London, Frankfurt, Honk Kong, and Sydney) are examined. The copula functions are used to model the risk of investment. The Hurst threshold...

We investigate the behavior of the Shannon entropy, S(T), and the time generalized q-entropy, Sq(T), at increasing aggregation intervals, T, using series of 15-min and hourly rainfall records in the tropical Andes of Colombia, spanning from 21 months to 40 years, as well as average daily...

We investigate minute indexes of stock markets in 10 countries during financial crashes by dividing them into several stages according to their stock price tendencies: plunging stage (stage 1), fluctuating or rebounding stage (stage 2), and soaring stage (stage 3). The tail distributions of the...

We use an information-theoretic approach to describe changes in lending relationships between financial institutions around the time of the Lehman Brothers failure. Unlike previous work that conducts maximum likelihood estimation on undirected networks our analysis distinguishes between...

Macroscopic properties of heterogeneous media are frequently modelled by regular lattice models, which are based on a relatively small basic cluster of lattice sites. Here, we extend one of such models to any cluster of size k×k. We also explore its modified form. The focus is on the...

To describe car-following behaviors in complex situations better, increase roadway traffic mobility and minimize cars’ fuel consumptions, the linkage between headway changes with memory and car-following behaviors was explored with the field car-following data by using the gray correlation...