Initiating a Mexican wave: An instantaneous collective decision with both short- and long-range interactions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 369, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 830-840

  Farkas, Illés J ^a   Vicsek, Tamás ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dynamics of social systems; Excitable media; Instantaneous collective decision

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STADIUMS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS; EXCITABLE MEDIA; INSTANTANEOUS COLLECTIVE DECISION; SYMMETRIC SOLUTIONS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33745713276     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.01.075     Document Type: Article

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