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走向社会物理学

Towards a physics of society
课程网址: http://videolectures.net/eccs08_fortunato_tapos/  
主讲教师: Santo Fortunato
开课单位: 阿尔托大学
开课时间: 2008-10-17
课程语种: 英语
中文简介:
统计物理学已被证明是描述和理解由大量基本单位组成的系统的财产的宝贵工具。一个巨大的挑战是统计物理学的工具和技术是否适合探索大规模的社会现象。文献的大部分尝试都集中在简单的微观模型上,很少或根本没有接触到真实的社会动态。对这种方法的验证仍然缺乏,必须依靠关于真实社会系统的定量证据。在真实数据上找到规律是朝着这个方向迈出的关键一步。我们将证明投票和引用行为都具有规模性和普遍性。选票/城市数量的统计分布(适当标准化)与所考虑的特定系统无关。这为观察到的现象学的简单建模开辟了道路。
课程简介: Statistical physics has proven to be an invaluable tool to describe and understand the properties of systems formed by a large number of elementary units. A big challenge is whether the tools and techniques of statistical physics are suitable to explore large scale social phenomena. Most attempts of the literature focus on simple microscopic models, with little or no contact to real social dynamics. A validation of this approach is still lacking and must rely on quantitative evidence about real social systems. Finding regularities on real data is a crucial step in this direction. We will show that voting and citing behaviors are both characterized by scaling and universality. The statistical distribution of the number of votes/cites, suitably normalized, is independent of the particular system considered. This opens the way to a simple modeling of the observed phenomenology.
关 键 词: 统计物理学; 社会现象; 特定系统
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最后编审: 2023-05-11:chenjy
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