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Traffic and Granular Flow ’99: Social, Traffic, and Granular Dynamics

By Hans J. Herrmann , Michael Schreckenberg , Dirk Helbing , W. Weidlich (auth.) , Dietrich E. Wolf (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2000
ISBN
978-3-642-64109-1, 978-3-642-59751-0
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-59751-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28657684 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
522\533
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Applications of Mathematics; Automotive Engineerin

Description

"Are there common phenomena and laws in the dynamic behavior of granular materials, traffic, and socio-economic systems?" The answers given at the international workshop "Traffic and Granular Flow '99" are presented in this volume. From a physical standpoint, all these systems can be treated as (self)-driven many-particle systems with strong fluctuations, showing multistability, phase transitions, non-linear waves, etc. The great interest in these systems is due to several unexpected new discoveries and their practical relevance for solving some fundamental problems of today's societies. This includes intelligent measures for traffic flow optimization and methods from "econophysics" for stabilizing (stock) markets.

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