We study opinion formation processes in small social networks. In particular we show how a group’s ability for efficient decision-making depends on its size. We adopt a threshold voter model and show that there exists a characteristic size beyond which the probability of forming internal...

Traditionally evolution is seen as a process where from a pool of possible variations of a population (e.g. biological species or industrial goods) a few variations get selected which survive and proliferate, whereas the others vanish. Survival probabilities and proliferation rates are...

We study the dynamics of public media attention by monitoring the content of online blogs. Social and media events can be traced by the propagation of word frequencies of related keywords. Media events are classified as exogenous–where blogging activity is triggered by an external news...

Studying human behavior in virtual environments provides extraordinary opportunities for a quantitative analysis of social phenomena with levels of accuracy that approach those of the natural sciences. In this paper we use records of player activities in the massive multiplayer online game...

We study the temporal variability of human brain activity in timeseries of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. We find that these timeseries show scaling behavior which is quantified by computing various scaling exponents. We demonstrate that mentally active zones are one-to-one...

We show that within classical statistical mechanics it is possible to naturally derive power-law distributions which are of Tsallis type. The only assumption is that microcanonical distributions have to be separable from of the total system energy, which is reasonable for any sensible...

Using a recently proposed model Physica A 332 (2004) 566 of information transport on complex networks we study the role of network substrates on the statistics of queuing times and correlations in traffic streams. When navigation with an enlarged information horizon is applied the waiting time...

We show that within classical statistical mechanics, without taking the thermodynamic limit, the most general Boltzmann factor for the canonical ensemble is a q-exponential function. The only assumption here is that microcanonical distributions have to be separated from the total system energy,...

We generalize the usual exponential Boltzmann factor to any reasonable and potentially observable distribution function, B(E). By defining generalized logarithms Λ as inverses of these distribution functions, we are led to a generalization of the classical Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy...

We study diffusion of information packets on several classes of structured networks. Packets diffuse from a randomly chosen node to a specified destination in the network. As local transport rules we consider random diffusion and an improved local search method. Numerical simulations are...