Quantitative Sociodynamics Stochastic Methods and Models of Social Interaction Processes /

• Main Author: Helbing, Dirk. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Edition: 2.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Distribution (Probability theory).; Operations research.; Social sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Social Sciences, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11546-2

This new edition of Quantitative Sociodynamics presents a general strategy for interdisciplinary model building and its application to a quantitative description of behavioral changes based on social interaction processes. Originally, the crucial methods for the modeling of complex systems (stochast...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Summary
• Dynamic Decision Behavior
• Part I: Stochastic Methods and Non-Linear Dynamics: Master Equation in State Space
• Boltzmann-Like Equations
• Master Equation in Configuration Space
• The Fokker-Planck Equation
• Langevin Equations and Non-Linear Dynamics
• Part II: Quantitative Models of Social Processes: Overview
• Problems and Terminology
• Decision Theoretical Specification of the Transition Rates
• Opinion Formation Models
• Social Fields and Social Forces
• Evolutionary Game Theory
• Determination of the Model Parameters from Empirical Data
• List of Symbols used in Part I and II.-.