Papers by Frank Schweitzer
Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2008
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Games and Economic Behavior, 2012
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Procedia Computer Science, 2011
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Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008
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Teubner-Texte zur Physik, 1988
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Teubner-Texte zur Physik, 1988
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Teubner-Texte zur Physik, 1988
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Eprint Arxiv Cond Mat 0211606, Nov 26, 2002
After summarizing basic features of self-organization such as entropy export, feedbacks and nonli... more After summarizing basic features of self-organization such as entropy export, feedbacks and nonlinear dynamics, we discuss several examples in biology. The main part of the paper is devoted to a model of active Brownian motion that allows a stochastic description of the active motion of biological entities based on energy consumption and conversion. This model is applied to the dynamics of swarms with external and interaction potentials. By means of analytical results, we can distiguish between translational, rotational and amoebic modes of swarm motion. We further investigate swarms of active Brownian particles interacting via chemical fields and demonstrate the application of this model to phenomena such as biological aggregation and trail formation in insects.
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Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Mar 31, 2009
A local culture denotes a commonly shared behaviour within a cluster of firms. Similar to social ... more A local culture denotes a commonly shared behaviour within a cluster of firms. Similar to social norms or conventions, it is an emergent feature resulting from the firms' interaction in an economic network. To model these dynamics, we consider a distributed agent population, representing e.g. firms or individuals. Further, we build on a continuous opinion dynamics model with bounded confidence ($\epsilon$), which assumes that two agents only interact if differences in their behaviour are less than $\epsilon$. Interaction results in more similarity of behaviour, i.e. convergence towards a common mean. This framework is extended by two major concepts: (i) The agent's in-group consisting of acquainted interaction partners is explicitly taken into account. This leads to an effective agent behaviour reflecting that agents try to continue to interact with past partners and thus to keep sufficiently close to them. (ii) The in-group network structure changes over time, as agents can form new links to other agents with sufficiently close effective behaviour or delete links to agents no longer close in behaviour. Thus, our model provides a feedback mechanism between the agents' behaviour and their in-group structure. Studying its consequences by means of agent-based computer simulations, we find that for narrow-minded agents (low $\epsilon$) the additional feedback helps to find consensus more often, whereas for open-minded agents (high $\epsilon$) this does not hold. This counterintuitive result is explained by simulations of the network evolution.
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The European Physical Journal B Condensed Matter Physics, Jun 28, 2010
We develop an agent-based framework to model the emergence of collective emotions, which is appli... more We develop an agent-based framework to model the emergence of collective emotions, which is applied to online communities. Agent's individual emotions are described by their valence and arousal. Using the concept of Brownian agents, these variables change according to a stochastic dynamics, which also considers the feedback from online communication. Agents generate emotional information, which is stored and distributed in a field modeling the online medium. This field affects the emotional states of agents in a non-linear manner. We derive conditions for the emergence of collective emotions, observable in a bimodal valence distribution. Dependent on a saturated or a superlinear feedback between the information field and the agent's arousal, we further identify scenarios where collective emotions only appear once or in a repeated manner. The analytical results are illustrated by agent-based computer simulations. Our framework provides testable hypotheses about the emergence of collective emotions, which can be verified by data from online communities.
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