The waiting time distribution between successive events and the unified scaling law is studied using the coherent noise model. It is shown that, although this model generates uncorrelated event sizes and does not exhibit criticality, it still provides the unified scaling law. We argue the role...

The distribution of property is established through various mechanisms. In this paper we study the acreage distribution of land plots owned by natural persons in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. We show that the data are explained in terms of a simple model in which the inheritance and...

We study the efficacy of allelomimesis as an escape strategy of mobile agents (pedestrians) that aim to leave a two-exit room within the shortest possible time. Allelomimesis is the act of copying one’s kindred neighbors. To escape, an agent employs one of the following strategies: (1) It...

We compute the stationary in-degree probability, P(k<Subscript>in</Subscript>), for a growing network model with directed edges and arbitrary out-degree probability. In particular, under preferential linking, we find that if the nodes have a light tail (finite variance) out-degree distribution, then the corresponding...</subscript>