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This paper looks at the history of money and its modern form from a scientific and mathematical point of view. The approach here is to emphasize simplicity. A straightforward model and algebraic formula for a large economy analogous to the ideal gas law of thermodynamics is proposed. It may be...
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Software has gone from obscurity to indispensability in less than fifty years. Although other industries have followed a similar trajectory, software and its supporting industry are different. In this book the authors explain, from a variety of perspectives, how software and the software...
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Die Diskussion um das digital divide oder die digitale Spaltung, wie sie für den deutschsprachigen Raum übersetzt wird, wird nun schon seit nahezu zehn Jahren intensiv geführt.1 Vor allem im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion hat sich das Bedrohungsszenario einer digitalen Spaltung innerhalb...
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The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts...
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Using numerical simulations and scaling theory we study the dynamics of the world-wide Web from the growth rules recently proposed in Tadić (Physica A 293 (2001) 273) with appropriate parameters. We demonstrate that the emergence of power-law behavior of the out- and in-degree distributions in...
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Correlations and other collective phenomena are considered in a schematic model of pairwise interacting, competing and collaborating agents facing a binary choice and situated at the nodes of the complete graph and a 2-dimensional regular lattice, respectively. The agents may be subjected to an...
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Evidence for Ziegler’s principle of maximum entropy production has been accumulated from different fields such as climatic studies, crystal growth, dynamics of ecosystems and cellular metabolism. However, Ziegler’s principle is still seen with scepticism by the scientific community. The...
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The collective behavior of locally coupled-map lattices is investigated when the connections are defined on fractal geometries, such as generalized Sierpinski gaskets embedded in d-dimensional Euclidean spaces. The collective states are described through the mean fields of the networks. Periodic...
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We discuss the relation between ensemble and time averages for quasistationary states of low-dimensional symplectic maps that present remarkable analogies with similar states detected in many-body long-range-interacting Hamiltonian systems.
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