Individualization as driving force of clustering phenomena in humans

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Mäs, Michael ^a   Flache, Andreas ^a   Helbing, Dirk ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SEPARATION;

ANT COLONIES; CELLULARS; CLUSTERING PHENOMENA; CLUSTERINGS; DRIVING FORCES; FLOCK OF BIRDS; HUMAN POPULATION; INDIVIDUALISATION; SELF-ORGANIZE; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROWDING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; AVES;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANOMIE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MASS BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 78349272023     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000959     Document Type: Article

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