The naming game model characterizes the main evolutionary features of languages or more generally of communication systems. Very recently, the combination of complex networks and the naming game has received much attention and the influences of various topological properties on the corresponding...

Within most real biological or social systems, age plays an important role in the vitality of individuals. For instance, individuals become more and more weak with age, while young individuals may prosper even under poor living conditions. In this paper, we find that aging as a coevolutionary...

Heritability is ubiquitous within most real biological or social systems. A heritable trait is most simply an offspring’s trait that resembles the parent’s corresponding trait, which can be fitness, strategy, or the way of strategy adoption for evolutionary games. Here we study the effects...

In this paper, we propose a influence-based approach to investigate network-based recommendation systems. Different from the previous mass diffusion approach, we give a new expression of initial resource distribution and take into account the influence of resources associated with the receiver...

In this paper, we propose a novel method to compute the similarity between congeneric nodes in bipartite networks. Different from the standard cosine similarity, we take into account the influence of a node’s degree. Substituting this new definition of similarity for the standard cosine...

In this paper, we present a recommendation algorithm based on the resource-allocation progresses on bipartite networks. In this model, each node is assigned an attraction that is proportional to the power of its degree, where the exponent β is an adjustable parameter that controls the...

A parsimonious percolation model for stock market is proposed, of which the avalanche dynamics agree with the real-life one as well. We have also investigated how the interaction parameter p affects the price dynamics. Simulation results about the formation of the bullish/bearish market and...

We propose a new model of minority game with so-called smart agents such that the standard deviation and the total loss in this model reach the theoretical minimum values in the limit of long time. The smart agents use trail and error method to make a choice but bring global optimization to the...

Cellular automaton models for traffic flow problems in one dimension are considered. Starting with a microscopic relation for the updating rule describing the occupancy on each site of the road, a macroscopic time-evolution relation is obtained for the average speed of cars by carrying out...

As a killing machine and a decisive factor of history, wars play an important role in social system. In this paper, we present an empirical exploration of the distribution of recurrent time of wars in ancient China and find that it obeys a stretched exponential form. The pattern we found implies...