In this paper, the fractal characteristic of human behaviors is investigated from the perspective of time series constructed with the amount of library loans. The values of the Hurst exponent and length of non-periodic cycle calculated through rescaled range analysis indicate that the time...

Self-serving, rational agents sometimes cooperate to their mutual benefit. The two-player iterated prisoner's dilemma game is a model for including the emergence of cooperation. It is generally believed that there is no simple ultimatum strategy which a player can control the return of the other...

We study Facebook networks at 40 American universities, with focus on the comparison of their degree distributions and mechanism governing their evolution. We find that the heterogeneity indexes of these networks are all small compared with scale-free networks, and different from real-world...

In real-life networks, incomers may only connect to a few others in a local area for their limited information, and individuals in a local area are likely to have close relations. Accordingly, we propose a local preferential attachment model. Here, a local-area-network stands for a node and all...

In recent years, the study of power-law scaling characteristics of real-life networks has attracted much interest from scholars; it deviates from the Poisson process. In this paper, we take the whole process of aerial inbound operation in a logistics company as the empirical object. The main aim...

This book addresses eight issues on behavioral finance and Chinese stock market: the theory of economic agent's self value, Chinese stock market's rapid development and linebreak peculiarities, the momentum and contrarian strategies in Chinese stock market, the highly volatile beta in China's...