The proceedings of the international conference "SMSEC2014", a joint conference of the first "Social Modeling and Simulations" and the 10th "Econophysics Colloquium", held in Kobe in November 2014 with 174 participants, are gathered herein. Cutting edge scientific researches on various social...

The existence of a phase transition in a computer network model is indicated by an abrupt change in packet density, critical slowing down and fractal properties of the characteristic time series. The network operates most efficiently in the vicinity of the critical point.