Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

This short review presents a selected history of the mutual fertilization between physics and
economics—from Isaac Newton and Adam Smith to the present. The fundamentally different …

We study the relaxation response of a social system after endogenous and exogenous
bursts of activity using the time series of daily views for nearly 5 million videos on YouTube …

In 2000 we proposed a sociophysics model of opinion formation, which was based on trade
union maxim" United we Stand, Divided we Fall"(USDF) and latter due to Dietrich Stauffer …

In honor of professor Dietrich Stauffer we review the literature on the Sznajd model, which
probably owes him not only the name and popularity, but perhaps even the fact that it was …

This book is a course in methods and models rooted in physics and used in modelling
economic and social phenomena. It covers the discipline of econophysics, which creates an …

Diffusion processes are governed by external triggers and internal dynamics in complex
systems. Timely and cost-effective control of infectious disease spread critically relies on …

Are large biological extinctions such as the Cretaceous/Tertiary KT boundary due to a
meteorite, extreme volcanic activity or self-organized critical extinction cascades? Are …

Integrating the studies of epilepsy, neurosciences, computational neurosciences,
mathematics, physics, engineering, and medicine, this volume provides the first means to a …

In the era of social media, every day billions of individuals produce content in socio-
technical systems resulting in a deluge of information. However, human attention is a limited …