LEADER 05297nam 22008055 450 001 9910300391003321 005 20250609110706.0 010 $a3-319-04879-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-04879-6 035 $a(CKB)2560000000148748 035 $a(EBL)1698172 035 $a(OCoLC)904404049 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001204992 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11668246 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001204992 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11180279 035 $a(PQKB)10891147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1698172 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-04879-6 035 $a(PPN)178320013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6235525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000148748 100 $a20140403d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNetworks of Echoes $eImitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders /$fby Bruce J. West, Malgorzata Turalska, Paolo Grigolini 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (235 p.) 225 1 $aComputational Social Sciences,$x2509-9574 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a3-319-04878-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aNetworking Perspective -- Complexity Primer -- A Model of Decision Making -- Criticality and Crowds -- Networks of Influence -- Critical Networks. 330 $aNetworks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs.  There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws.  The phenomena of interest are not arcane events that we encounter only fleetingly, but are events that dominate our lives. We examine how this intermittent statistical behavior intertwines itself with what appears to be the organized activity of social groups.  The book is structured as answers to a sequence of questions such as: How are decisions reached in elections and boardrooms?  How is the stability of a society undermined by zealots and committed minorities, and how is that stability re-established?  Can we learn to answer such questions about human behavior by studying the way flocks of birds retain their formation when eluding a predator?  These questions and others are answered using a generic model of a complex dynamic network?one whose global behavior is determined by a symmetric interaction among individuals based on social imitation. The complexity of the network is manifest in time series resulting from self-organized critical dynamics that have divergent first and second moments, are non-stationary, non-ergodic, and non-Poisson.  How phase transitions in the network dynamics influence such activity as decision making is a fascinating story and provides a context for introducing many of the mathematical ideas necessary for understanding complex networks in general.  The decision making model (DMM) is selected to emphasize that there are features of complex webs that supersede specific mechanisms and need to be understood from a general perspective.  This insightful overview of recent tools and their uses may serve as an introduction and curriculum guide in related courses. 410 0$aComputational Social Sciences,$x2509-9574 606 $aPhysics 606 $aSocial sciences 606 $aSociophysics 606 $aEconophysics 606 $aApplication software 606 $aGame theory 606 $aApplications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33010 606 $aMethodology of the Social Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X17000 606 $aData-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33030 606 $aComputer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/I23028 606 $aGame Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M13011 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aSocial sciences. 615 0$aSociophysics. 615 0$aEconophysics. 615 0$aApplication software. 615 0$aGame theory. 615 14$aApplications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks. 615 24$aMethodology of the Social Sciences. 615 24$aData-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building. 615 24$aComputer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. 615 24$aGame Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. 676 $a003.72 676 $a658.4092 700 $aWest$b Bruce J$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$048667 702 $aTuralska$b Malgorzata$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aGrigolini$b Paolo$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300391003321 996 $aNetworks of Echoes$92525349 997 $aUNINA