Modeling Projects

Social interactions

- Modeling crowd dynamics

The first two papers describe two-dimensional models of pedestrian dynamics. The third paper is in one space dimension and focuses on model characteristics that reproduce the experimentally measured velocity-density relationship of pedestrian flows.

• Macroscopic effects of microscopic forces between agents in crowd models, by C.M. Henein and T. White,
  Physica A 373, 694-712 (2007).
• Small-grid analysis of discrete model for evacuation from a hall, by W.G. Weng, L.L. Pan, S.F. Shen, and H.Y. Yuan,
  Physica A 374, 821-826 (2007).
• Basics of modelling the pedestrian flow, by A. Seyfried, B. Steffen, and T. Lippert,
  Physica A 368, 232-238 (2006).

- Modeling the dream team

The first link points to a perspective article published in Science. The second link points to the article describing the model of team formation.

• Network Theory - the emergence of the creative enterprise by A.-L. Barabási,
  Science 308, 639-641 (2005).
• Team assembly mechanisms determine collaboration network structure and team performance by R. Guimerà, B. Uzzi, J. Spiro and L.A. Amaral,
  Science 308, 697-702 (2005).