Statistical Physics and Social Sciences
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2299
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computational science; data science; complexity of physical, economic, social, and information systems; complex social networks; computational social science; data-driven health science
Interests: complex systems; network science; sociophysics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our societies today as we see them are a result of the interactions continually occurring at the micro as well as macro levels between different actors and entities. The dynamics followed in such interacting systems are a reflection of one of the fundamental characteristics of humans: the social behavior. The current understanding of this complexity and existing theories and models result from a culmination of many different perspectives.
While this subject has been traditionally tackled by the social sciences, there has been a paradigm shift in the last few decades whereby human societies have come to be largely viewed as complex systems, an approach rooted in statistical physics. The description of properties and dynamics of systems with interacting elements and constituents has been the object of study of the latter, with applications in diverse scientific fields. The transdisciplinary exchanges between statistical physics and social sciences, armed with the availability of large digital datasets and computing power, have helped to establish several new and active research agendas and methodologies, such as econophysics, network science, sociophysics, and science of cities, to name a few. This is, overall, a broad endeavour to connect human behavior observed at the individual level with the structure and function of societies at the population level.
Novel contributions related to the afore-mentioned areas, from any researcher studying social phenomena from the perspective of the statistical physics, are welcome in this Special Issue, which covers a variety of social science-related fields, including the following suggested topics:
- Collective phenomena in techno-social and socio-economical systems;
- Social human behavior, self-organizing social processes;
- Social networks and modelling;
- Human mobility, urban growth, and community-formation processes;
- Spreading processes of information and epidemics;
- Econophysics, game theory;
- Social signal processing, information-theoretic concepts for human behavior;
- Entropy-based measures for digital footprints;
- Social media analysis and models;
- Agent-based modelling.
Prof. Kimmo Kaski
Dr. Kunal Bhattacharya
Dr. Daniel Monsivais-Velazquez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Entropy
- Information theory
- Self-organization
- Statistical mechanics
- Complex networks
- Complex systems
- Social network analysis
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Human behavior
- Mobility
- Science of cities
- Multiagent systems
- Homophily
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