Traffic and Granular Flow '99
Subtitle: Social, Traffic, and Granular Dynamics
By: edited by Dirk Helbing, Hans J. Herrmann, Michael Schreckenberg, Dietrich E. Wolf
Contributors: Herrmann, Hans J.; Schreckenberg, Michael; Wolf, Dietrich E.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9783642641091; 9783642597510
Subjects: Mathematics; Engineering; Environmental sciences
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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