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 …

Demand outstrips available resources in most situations, which gives rise to competition,
interaction and learning. In this article, we review a broad spectrum of multi-agent models of …

Purpose–The growing interest in complexity science as a framework for understanding
social and economic systems has had, in recent times, an influence on the study of tourism …

Portfolio analysis and optimization, together with the associated risk assessment and
management, require knowledge of the likely distributions of returns at different time scales …

Purpose–Tourism systems have been considered more and more in the light of complexity
and chaos theories. Most of the work done in this area has highlighted the reasons for and …

The aim of this paper is to examine the role of thermodynamics, and in particular, entropy, for
the development of economics within the last 150 years. The use of entropy has not only led …

This chapter examines the wicked problem of adequately measuring tourism in its many
facets. This concise survey examines the main techniques used today for assessing tourism …

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 …

Anchoring is a term used in psychology to describe the common human tendency to rely too
heavily (anchor) on one piece of information when making decisions. Here a trading …