Why We Live in Hierarchies? A Quantitative Treatise /

• Main Authors: Zafeiris, Anna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Vicsek, Tamás (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity,
• Subjects: Physics.; System theory.; Computational complexity.; Statistical physics.; Science-Social aspects.; Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks.; Complex Systems.; Complexity.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.; Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education.

This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy. To do so, it discusses recent experiments and models that are simple and realistic enough to reproduce the observations, and develops concepts for a better und...