Dirk Helbing

ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)

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ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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1.

Societal, Economic, Ethical and Legal Challenges of the Digital Revolution: From Big Data to Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Manipulative Technologies

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Apr 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Digital revolution, Big Data, deep learning, artificial intelligence, persuasive computing, nudging

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Simulating Dynamical Features of Escape Panic

Nature, Vol. 407, pp. 487-490, 2000
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Nov 2006
Dirk Helbing, Illes J. Farkas and Tamas Vicsek
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eotvos University - Budapest, Hungary and Eotvos University - Budapest, Hungary
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Escape reaction, Panic, Crowding, Emergencies, Computer simulations with continuous space and time, Free scientific software

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The Automation of Society is Next: How to Survive the Digital Revolution

Number of pages: 266 Posted: 27 Nov 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Economy 4.0, digital society, IT revolution, behavioral manipulation, digital revolution, predictive analytics

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Economy 4.0 and Digital Society: The Participatory Market Society is Born (Chapter 8 of Digital Society)

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Dec 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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information society, knowledge sector, digital revolution, sharing economy, economic ecosystem

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Rethinking Economics Using Complexity Theory

real-world economics review, issue no. 64
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Jul 2013
Dirk Helbing and Alan Kirman
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and GREQAM
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critique, homo economicus, invisible hand, representative agents, financial markets, instability, self-organisation, emergence

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How to Do Agent-Based Simulations in the Future: From Modeling Social Mechanisms to Emergent Phenomena and Interactive Systems Design

Chapter "Agent-Based Modeling" of the book "Social Self-Organization" by Dirk Helbing (Springer, Berlin, 2012), pp. 25-70.
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Oct 2013
Dirk Helbing and Stefano Balietti
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich
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agent-based modeling, multi-agent simulation, systems design, data-driven models, virtual worlds, serious games, augmented reality

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How to Improve the Financial Architecture and Its Resilience

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Jun 2014
Dirk Helbing, Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Fabio Caccioli, J. Doyne Farmer, Steve Keen, Katharina Pistor, Dennis J. Snower, Olsen Richard, Angelo Ranaldo, Norbert Häring and Edward Fullbrook
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Capital Fund Management, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Western Sydney - School of Economics & Finance, Columbia University School of Law, University of Kiel - Institute for World Economics (IfW), Independent, University of St. Gallen, Independent and University of the West of England (UWE)
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financial architecture, resilience, financial crisis, banking crisis, economic crisis, new economic thinking

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Quantifying the Behavior of Stock Correlations Under Market Stress

Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, 2012, DOI:10.1038/srep00752
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 02 Nov 2012
Tobias Preis, Dror Y. Kenett, H. Eugene Stanley, Dirk Helbing and Eshel Ben-Jacob
Data Science Lab, Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Boston University - Center for Polymer Studies, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and Tel Aviv University (Deceased)
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Financial Markets, Correlation Breakdown, Portfolio Theory, Stock Market, Dow Jones Industrial Average, State-Dependent Correlations, Diversification, Stock Market Crash

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The Digital Society - A Better Future or Worse? (Introduction of Digital Society)

Digital Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Jan 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Digital revolution, information society, Leviathan, invisible hand, Big Data

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Why We Need Democracy 2.0 and Capitalism 2.0 to Survive

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Why We Need Democracy 2.0 and Capitalism 2.0 to Survive

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Feudalism, technological totalitarism, communism, feudalism, big nudging, resource shortage, capitalism, climate change, overpopulation

Why We Need Democracy 2.0 and Capitalism 2.0 to Survive

Jusletter IT, May 2016
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Feb 2018
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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democracy, capitalism, digital transformation, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence

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Responding to Complexity in Socio-­Economic Systems: How to Build a Smart and Resilient Society?

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 24 Mar 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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complex dynamical systems, smart society, digital society, modularization, distributed control, self-organization, Internet of Things, externalities, multi-dimensional finance

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Communication Power Struggles on Social Media: A Case Study of the 2011-12 Russian Protests

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016
Viktoria Spaiser, Thomas Chadefaux, Karsten Donnay, Fabian Russmann and Dirk Helbing
University of Leeds, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, ETH Zürich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Communication Power, Social Media, Twitter, Political Discourse, Russia, Natural Language Processing, Protest

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Homo Socialis: An Analytical Core for Sociological Theory

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Dec 2013
Herbert Gintis and Dirk Helbing
Santa Fe Institute and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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homo economicus, homo socialis, analytical theory, decision theory, social norms

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Fundamental and Real-World Challenges in Economics

Science and Culture, Vol. 76, Nos. 9-10, September-October 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Jan 2011
Dirk Helbing and Stefano Balietti
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and Northeastern University - Network Science Institute
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Econophysics, Hilbert Program, Economics

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Qualified Money - A Better Financial System for the Future

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 23 Nov 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Bitcoin, digital currencies, reputation system, financial architecture, unfeasible control problem, multi-dimensional money with a memory

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Wie wir eine smarte, krisenfeste, digitale Gesellschaft bauen können (How We Can Build a Smart, Resilient, Digital Society)

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Digitale Revolution, Big Data, Künstliche Intelligenz, Massenarbeitslosigkeit, Internet der Dinge

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Big Data, Privacy, and Trusted Web: What Needs to Be Done

This is the second part of the paper: D. Helbing and S. Balietti, From social data mining to forecasting socio-economic crises. EPJ Special Topics 195, 3-68 (2011)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Sep 2013
Dirk Helbing and Stefano Balietti
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich
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Digital Economy, Internet, Privacy, Trust, Reputation, Security

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How Individuals Learn to Take Turns: Emergence of Alternating Cooperation in a Congestion Game and the Prisoner's Dilemma

Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 8, pp. 87-116
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 15 Apr 2005
Dirk Helbing, Martin Schoenhof, Hans-Ulrich Stark and Janusz Holyst
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Dresden University of Technology - Institute for Transport and Economics, Dresden University of Technology - Institute for Transport and Economics and Warsaw University of Technology - Faculty of Physics
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Game theory, reinforcement learning, multi-agent simulation

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Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute

Journal of Statistical Physics 158 (2015) 735-781
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2017
Dirk Helbing, Dirk Brockmann, Thomas Chadefaux, Karsten Donnay, Ulf Blanke, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Mehdi Moussaid, Anders Johansson, Jens Krause, Sebastian Schutte and Matjaz Perc
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Humboldt University of Berlin, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, ETH Zürich, ETH Zürich, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University College London, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology, ETH Zürich and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor
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crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war, disease spreading, complexity science

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Adding Noise to the Institution: An Experimental Welfare Investigation of the Contribution-Based Grouping Mechanism

Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 50, No. 2, 2018
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 May 2015 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2018
Heinrich H. Nax, Stefano Balietti, Ryan O. Murphy and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, Northeastern University - Network Science Institute, University of Zurich - Department of Economics and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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public-goods, meritocratic matching, efficiency, fairness, inequality

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Disease-Induced Resource Constraints Can Trigger Explosive Epidemics

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 09 May 2015
Lucas Böttcher, Olivia Woolley-Meza, Nuno A.M. Araujo, Hans J. Herrmann and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, ETH Zürich, ETH Zürich, ETH Zürich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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epidemics, networks, resource constraints

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Homo Socialis - The Road Ahead

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Homo economicus, homo socialis, new economic thinking, paradigm shift

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What the Digital Revolution Means for Us

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 04 Sep 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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digital revolution, digital society, economy 4.0, participation, self-regulation

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The Digital Society: A Summary

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 23 Dec 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Digital revolution, digital society, economy 4.0, complex systems, self-organization, Internet of Things

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Stability and Welfare of 'Merit-Based' Group-Matching Mechanisms in Voluntary Contribution Game

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2021
Heinrich H. Nax, Ryan O. Murphy and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, University of Zurich - Department of Economics and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
Downloads 165 (213,184)
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Meritocracy, Voluntary contribution, Public goods, Stochastic stability, Evolutionary stability, Assortative matching

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A 'Social Bitcoin' Could Sustain a Democratic Digital World

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 29 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2016
Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg and Dirk Helbing
Departament de Fisica Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Marti i Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Multidimensional incentive system, self-organization, qualified money, digital revolution, digital diversity, decentralization, information routing, Social Bitcoin

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Systemic Risks in Society and Economics

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Mar 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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complex system, systemic risk, market instability, cascade effect, managing complexity

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Public Debate in the Media Matters: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis

Caleb M. Koch, Izabela Moise, Dirk Helbing and Karsten Donnay. (2020). “Public Debate in the Media Matters: Evidence from the European Refugee Crisis.” EPJ Data Science, DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00229-8.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 May 2018 Last Revised: 21 May 2020
Caleb M. Koch, Izabela Moise, Dirk Helbing and Karsten Donnay
ETH Zurich, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and Department of Political Science, University of Zurich
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Mass media, Asylum seekers, Granger-causality analysis

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An Extension of Asimov's Robotics Laws

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 07 Feb 2018
Jan Nagler, Jeroen van den Hoven and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, Delft University of Technology and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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How Society Works - Social Order by Self-Organization (Chapter 5 of Digital Society)

Digital Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Nov 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Self-organization, cooperation, globalization, tragedy of the commons, moral behavior, reputation systems, mechanism design, social information technologies

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From Social Datamining to Forecasting Socio-Economic Crisis

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Jan 2011
Dirk Helbing and Stefano Balietti
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and Northeastern University - Network Science Institute
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datamining, crisis, forecast, sensors, predictability, governance, recommendations, decision arenas

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Dynamic Decision Behavior and Optimal Guidance Through Information Services: Models and Experiments

HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND TRAFFIC NETWORKS, M. Schreckenberg and R. Selten, eds., pp. 47-95, Springer, Berlin, 2004
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Ferngesteuert oder Selbstgesteuert - Perspektiven der Digitalen Gesellschaft (Remote or Self-Controlled - Perspectives of the Digitial Society)

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Feb 2016
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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digitale Gesellschaft, technologische Totalitarismus, Datendiktatur, digitale Demokratie, Ökonomie 4.0, Big Nudging, kybernetische Gesellschaft, Verhaltenssteuerung

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A Mathematical Model for the Behavior of Individuals in a Social Field

Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 189-219, 1994
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Ethics for Times of Crisis

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 07 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2018
Jan Nagler, Jeroen van den Hoven and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, Delft University of Technology and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Big Data Society: Age of Reputation or Age of Discrimination?

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 27 Sep 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Big Data, surveillance, statistical errors, discrimination, transparency, reputation

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The Self-Organizing Society - Taking the Future in Our Hands (Chapter 9 of Digital Society)

Digital Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Jan 2015
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Digital revolution, information society, Big Data, surveillance, informational self-determination, ethical framework

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Crystal Ball and Magic Wand - the Dangerous Promise of Big Data (Chapter 3 of Digital Society)

Digital Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Oct 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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digital revolution, benevolent dictator, big government, optimization, complexity, cybernetics

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Guided Self-Organization - Making the Invisible Hand Work (Chapter 4 of Digital Society)

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Oct 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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guided self-organization, complex system, emergence, invisible hand, Internet of Things, traffic assistance system, self-organized traffic light control, self-organized production, mechanism design

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Globally Networked Risks and How to Respond

Nature 497, 51-59 (2013)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 30 Mar 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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systemic risks, networks of networks, complex systems, cascade effects, guided self-organization

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FuturICT and Social Sciences: Big Data, Big Thinking

R. Conte, N. Gilbert, G. Bonelli, and D. Helbing. FuturICT and Social Sciences: Big Data, Big Thinking. Zeitschrift fur Soziologie 40(5), 412-413 (2011).
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Rosaria Conte, Nigel Gilbert, Giulia Bonelli and Dirk Helbing
Italian National Research Council (CNR) - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC), University of Surrey - Department of Sociology, Independent and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Big Data, multi-disciplinary approach, complex system, complexity science

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Physikalische Modellierung des dynamischen Verhaltens von Fußgängern (Physical Modeling of the Dynamic Behavior of Pedestrians)

Number of pages: 167 Posted: 27 Mar 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Pedestrian model, agent-based computer simulation, behavioral convention, micro-macro link, self-organization

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Pluralistic Modeling of Complex Systems

CCSS-10-009
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Jul 2010
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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complex systems modeling, multi-disciplinary science, socio-economic puzzles, possibilistic modeling, multiple world views

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Networked Minds: Where Human Evolution Is Heading (Chapter 7 of Digital Society)

D. Helbing, Digital Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Dec 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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new decision theory, rational agent, self-regarding and other-regarding preferences, evolution, homo economicus, homo socialis, wisdom of crowds, collective intelligence

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Social Forces - Revealing the Causes of Success or Disaster (Chapter 6 of Digital Society)

Digital Society, Chapter 6, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Nov 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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social forces, measuring the world, Planetary Nervous System, citizen web, sociophysics, crowd disasters, opinion formation, culture, conflict, flu prediction

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Overcoming 'Tragedies of the Commons' with a Self-Regulating, Participatory Market Society

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 03 Mar 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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information society, digital economy, homo socialis, self-regulation, participatory market society

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Self-Organization in Space and Induced by Fluctuations

International Journal of Chaos Theory and Applications, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing and Tadeusz Platkowski
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and University of Stuttgart
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The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future

CCSS Working Paper No. CCSS-10-003
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 May 2010
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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futurict, knowledge accelerator, information, flagship

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Complexity Time Bomb - When Systems Get Out of Control (Chapter 2 of Digital Society)

Chapter 2 of Digital Society, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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digital revolution, complex system, interdependencies, cascade effects, systemic instability

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A Stochastic Behavioral Model and a 'Microscopic' Foundation of Evolutionary Game Theory

Theory and Decisions, Vol. 40, pp. 149-179, 1996
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Inheritance Patterns in Citation Networks Reveal Scientific Memes

Physical Review X 4 (2014) 041036
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 21 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2015
Tobias Kuhn, Matjaz Perc and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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meme score, citation network, inheritance, metaknowledge, scientific memes

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Genie Out of the Bottle - The Digital Revolution on its Way (Chapter 1 of Digital Society)

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Oct 2014
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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digital revolution, information revolution, economy 4.0, Big Data, mass surveillance, invisible hand

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Local and and Non-Local Information in Decentralized Routing Strategies

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 01 Feb 2016
Dirk Helbing, John Polak and Henrik Jensen
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Imperial College London - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and Imperial College London - Department of Mathematics
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traffic optimization, routing, distributed control, decentralized information system

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Traffic Theory from First Principles

Number of pages: 263 Posted: 29 Apr 2017
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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traffic, transport, pedestrians, logistics, micro-macro link

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On Phase Transitions to Cooperation in the Prisoner's Dilemma

Physical Review E, Vol. 81, 2010, CCSS Working Paper No.10-004
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 May 2010 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2012
Dirk Helbing and Sergi Lozano
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich
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Evolution, Game Theory, Cooperation, Social and Economic Systems

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Economics 2.0: The Natural Step Towards a Self-Regulating, Participatory Market Society

Evol. Inst. Econ. Rev. 10(1): 3–41 (2013)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 May 2013 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2013
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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homo economicus, homo socialis, self-regulation, reputation systems, qualified money, FuturICT initiative, sustainability, innovation, employment, Web 2.0, social media

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How Social Inequality Can Promote Cooperation

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Jul 2010
Thomas Chadefaux and Dirk Helbing
Trinity College Dublin, Department of Political Science and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Prisoner's dilemma, conflict, cooperation, inequality, rich get richer effect, Matthews effect, evolution, heterogeneity, exploitation, survival

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A New Kind of Economy is Born -- Social Decision-Makers Beat the 'Homo Economicus'

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Sep 2013
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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homo economicus, homo socialis, new economic thinking, reputation systems, participatory market society

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When Slower is Faster

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 05 Aug 2015
Carlos Gershenson and Dirk Helbing
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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How Natural Selection Can Create Both Self- and Other-Regarding Preferences, and Networked Minds

Scientific Reports 3: 1480 (2013)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 May 2013
Thomas Grund, Christian Waloszek and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, ETH Zürich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
Downloads 70 (385,978)
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homo economicus, homo socialis, evolutionary game theory

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A Mathematical Model for Attitude Formation By Pair Interactions

Behavioral Science, Vol. 37, pp. 190-214, 1992
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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The Spatial Variability of Vehicle Densities as Determinant of Urban Network Capacity

CCSS Working Paper No. CCSS-09-009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Apr 2010
Amin Mazloumian, Nikolas Geroliminis and Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich, EPFL and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Urban traffic, network dynamics, congestion spreading, macroscopic traffic model, fundamental diagram

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Bargaining Over Time in Ultimatum Game Experiments

CCSS Working Paper No. CCSS-10-002
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2010
Roger Berger, Heiko Rauhut, Sandra Prade and Dirk Helbing
University of Leipzig - Department of Sociology, University of Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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bargaining over time, ultimatum game, loss, anonymity, fairness

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How Norms Can Generate Conflict: An Experiment on the Failure of Cooperative Micro-Motives on the Macro-Level

Social Forces 90 (3), 919-946, March 2012
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 13 Apr 2013
Fabian Winter, Heiko Rauhut and Dirk Helbing
Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, University of Zurich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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How to Efficiently Distribute Scarce Resources: Volatile Decision Behavior and Optimal Guidance through Information Services

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Nov 2015
Dirk Helbing, Martin Schonhof and Daniel Kern
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Dresden University of Technology and Dresden University of Technology
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climate change, congestion charge, recommender system, information service

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Crowd Disasters as Systemic Failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster

RC Working Paper No. 12-010
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Dec 2012
Dirk Helbing and Pratik Mukerji
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich
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crowd disaster, causality network, crowd control, domino effect, crowd quake, evacuation, cascading effect, systemic risk, instability

67.

Cooperation, Norms, and Revolutions: A Unified Game-Theoretical Approach

PLoS ONE, Vol. 5, No. 10, pp. 1-26, 2010
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Oct 2010
Dirk Helbing and Anders Johansson
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and University College London
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Analytical Investigation of Innovation Dynamics Considering Stochasticity in the Evaluation of Fitness

Physical Review E, Vol. 71, 2005
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing, Martin Treiber and Nicole J. Saam
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Dresden University of Technology - Institute for Transport and Economics and University of Erfurt
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How to Create an Innovation Accelerator

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 May 2013
Dirk Helbing and Stefano Balietti
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and Northeastern University - Network Science Institute
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innovation, knowledge management, science organization, competition, happiness, indexes

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From Social Simulation to Integrative System Design

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Feb 2011
Dirk Helbing and Stefano Balietti
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and Northeastern University - Network Science Institute
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Integrative Design, Ecological Thinking, Decision Arenas, Living Earth Simulator, Virtual Worlds, Simulation

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Survival Analysis, Master Equation, Efficient Simulation of Path-Related Quantities, and Hidden State Concept of Transitions

SOCIAL SCIENCE MICROSIMULATION, K. G. Troitzsch, U. Mueller, G. N. Gilbert, and J. E. Doran, eds., pp. 179-207, Springer, Berlin, 1996
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Punish, But Not Too Hard: How Costly Punishment Spreads in the Spatial Public Goods Game

New Journal of Physics 12 (2010) 083005
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2012
Dirk Helbing, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc and Gyorgy Szabo
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science
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Costly Punishment, Cooperation, Second-Order Free-Riders

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The Outbreak of Cooperation among Success-Driven Individuals under Noisy Conditions

National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), Vol. 106, No. 8, pp. 3680-3685, 2009
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 06 Mar 2009
Dirk Helbing and Wenjian Yu
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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evolution, pattern formation, spatial games, mobility, migration

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Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards Through Spatial Interactions

PLoS Computational Biology 6 (2010) e1000758
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2012
Dirk Helbing, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc and Gyorgy Szabo
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science
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Second-Order Free-Riding, Punishment, Moral, Double Moral, Public Goods, Cooperation, Spatial Games

75.

Logistics Networks: Coping with Nonlinearity and Complexity

In: Managing Complexity, edited by Dirk Helbing (Springer, Berlin), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Apr 2014
Karsten Peters, Thomas Seidel, Stefan Lämmer and Dirk Helbing
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden University of Technology, Technische Universität Dresden and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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supply chains, logistics, nonlinear dynamics, managing complexity

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FuturICT: FET Flagship Pilot Project

Procedia Computer Science, 2011
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 27 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2011
Steven Bishop, Dirk Helbing, Paul Lukowicz and Rosaria Conte
University College London, ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), University of Passau and Italian National Research Council (CNR) - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)
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Bankruptcy Cascades in Interbank Markets

Tedeschi G, Mazloumian A, Gallegati M, Helbing D (2012) Bankruptcy Cascades in Interbank Markets. PLoS ONE 7(12): e52749. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052749
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 05 May 2014
Gabriele Tedeschi, Amin Mazloumian, Mauro Gallegati and Dirk Helbing
Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics, ETH Zürich, Polytechnic University of Marche - Faculty of Economics and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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credit network, bankruptcy, cascade effect, interbank market

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Anonymous Sharing Behavior in Web Experiments with Different Balance of Power

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2015
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Sergi Lozano and Dirk Helbing
Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Rovira i Virgili University and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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ultimatum game, web experiments, ultimatum game, anonymity, power balance

79.

Digitally Assisted Self-Organization: Making the Invisible Hand Work

The Automation of Society is Next - How to Survive the Digital Revolution (2015)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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digital assistance, complex system, self-organisation, automation, artificial intelligence

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New Ways to Promote Sustainability and Social Well-Being in a Complex, Strongly Interdependent World: The FuturICT Approach

This is the Epilogue of the Booklet by P. Ball, Why Society is a Complex Matter (Springer, Berlin, 2012).
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Oct 2013
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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sustainability, resilience, complexity, globalization, networks, social well-being, social capital, social footprint

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Power and Fairness in a Generalized Ultimatum Game

PLoS ONE 9(6), 2014, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099039
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Sep 2014
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Sergi Lozano and Dirk Helbing
Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Rovira i Virgili University and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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Understanding Recurrent Crime as System-Immanent Collective Behavior

PLoS ONE 8 (2013) e76063
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Oct 2013
Matjaz Perc, Karsten Donnay and Dirk Helbing
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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crime cycles, inspection game, phase transitions, pattern formation, collective behavior, spatial games

83.

Defector-Accelerated Cooperativeness and Punishment in Public Goods Games with Mutations

Physical Review E 81 (2010) 057104
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2012
Dirk Helbing, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc and Gyorgy Szabo
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science
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Cooperation, Public Goods Game, Mutations

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Socio-Economic Implications of the Digital Revolution

Helbing. D. and Hausladen, C. (2022), Socio-Economic Implications of the Digital Revolution, in: Chen, P., Elsner, W. and Pyka, A. (eds.), Handbook of Complexity Economics, Routledge, London, New York, 2022.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Dirk Helbing and Carina Ines Hausladen
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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sharing economy,  collaborative economy, big data, data protection, privacy, right of access,  collective intelligence, wisdom of crowds, complex systems, selforganization

85.

An Agent-Based Approach to Self-Organized Production

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Nov 2015
Thomas Seidel, Marcia Jeanette Hartwig, Richard L. Sanders and Dirk Helbing
Dresden University of Technology, SCA Packaging Ltd., Lund University and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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industry 4.0, self-organized production, agent-based simulation

86.

Sustained Cooperation by Running Away from Bad Behavior

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Oct 2015
Charles Efferson, Carlos Roca, Sonja Vogt and Dirk Helbing
Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne, Babraham Institute, ETH Zürich and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)
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evolution of cooperation, positive assortment, migration, behavioral experiment

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Conditions for the Emergence of Shared Norms in Populations with Incompatible Preferences

PLoS ONE 9(8), 2014, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104207
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Sep 2014
Dirk Helbing, Wenjian Yu, Karl-Dieter Opp and Heiko Rauhut
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), University of Leipzig and University of Zurich
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Assortative Matching with Inequality in Voluntary Contribution Games

Forthcoming, Computational Economics
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2017
Stefano Duca, Dirk Helbing and Heinrich H. Nax
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich
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assortative matching, public goods, heterogeneity, inequality, computational economics

89.

From Crowd Dynamics to Crowd Safety: A Video-Based Analysis

Advances in Complex Systems, Volume: 11, Issue: 4 (2008) pp. 497-527
Posted: 26 Apr 2010
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)

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Pedestrian dynamics, crowd turbulence, video analysis, fundamental diagram

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Migration as Mechanism to Promote Cooperation

Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 11, Issue 4, pp. 641-652, 2008
Posted: 25 Nov 2009
Dirk Helbing and Wenjian Yu
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS) and ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)

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Spatial games, migration, pattern formation, agent-based simulation, cooperation

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Information Flows in Hierarchical Networks and the Capability of Organizations to Successfully Respond to Failures, Crises, and Disasters

Physica A, Vol. 363, No. 1, pp. 141-150, April 2006
Posted: 14 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert and Hendrik Ammoser
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Dresden University of Technology and Dresden University of Technology

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A Mathematical Model for Behavioral Changes by Pair Interactions and its Relation to Game Theory

Angewandte Sozialforschung, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 117-132
Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Dirk Helbing
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS)

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Mexican Waves in an Excitable Medium

Nature, Vol. 419, pp. 131-132, 2002
Posted: 28 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 21 May 2013
Dirk Helbing, Illes J. Farkas and Tamas Vicsek
ETH Zürich - Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (GESS), Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eotvos University - Budapest, Hungary and Eotvos University - Budapest, Hungary

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Social control, Social behavior, Collective decision, Critical mass, Computer simulation, Video recording