Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues
ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings …

The mixtures of cations and anions used in hybrid halide perovskites for high-performance
solar cells often undergo element and phase segregation, which limits device lifetime. We …

My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the
behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in …

The moment when the hyperconnectedness of our world became most evident to me was on
October 20th, 2011, when images of the death of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former …

With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and
understand the structure and dynamics of cities is becoming increasingly valuable …

The increasing integration of technology into our lives has created unprecedented volumes
of data on society's everyday behaviour. Such data opens up exciting new opportunities to …

The economic crisis is also a crisis for economic theory. Most analyses of the evolution of the
crisis invoke three themes, contagion, networks and trust, yet none of these play a major role …

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and
models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible …