Brownian motor in a granular medium (2009)
Balzan, Riccardo, Dalton, Fergal, Loreto, Vittorio, Petri, Alberto, Pontuale, Giorgio
In this work we experimentally study the behavior of a freely-rotating asymmetric probe immersed in a vibrated granular medium. For a wide variety of vibration conditions the probe exhibits a steady...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2009)
Martin Szomszor, Ciro Cattuto, Harith Alani, Andrea Baldassarri, Vittorio Loreto
Abstract. While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale...
Modeling the emergence of universal categorization (2009)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Gong, Tao, Puglisi, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio
The empirical evidence that human color categorization exhibits universal patterns beyond superficial discrepancies across different cultures has been a major breakthrough in the study of cognitive...
Collective dynamics of social annotation (2009)
Cattuto, Ciro, Barrat, Alain, Baldassarri, Andrea, Schehr, G., Loreto, Vittorio
The enormous increase of popularity and use of the WWW has led in the recent years to important changes in the ways people communicate. An interesting example of this fact is provided by the now very...
Consensus and ordering in language dynamics (2009)
Castelló, Xavier, Baronchelli, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio
We consider two social consensus models, the AB-model and the Naming Game restricted to two conventions, which describe a population of interacting agents that can be in either of two equivalent...
Collective dynamics of social annotation (2009)
Cattuto, Ciro, Barrat, Alain, Baldassarri, Andrea, Schehr, G., Loreto, Vittorio
The enormous increase of popularity and use of the WWW has led in the recent years to important changes in the ways people communicate. An interesting example of this fact is provided by the now very...
Collective dynamics of social annotation (2009)
Cattuto, Ciro, Barrat, Alain, Baldassarri, Andrea, Schehr, G., Loreto, Vittorio
The enormous increase of popularity and use of the WWW has led in the recent years to important changes in the ways people communicate. An interesting example of this fact is provided by the now very...
Collective dynamics of social annotation (2009)
Cattuto, Ciro, Barrat, Alain, Baldassarri, Andrea, Schehr, G., Loreto, Vittorio
The enormous increase of popularity and use of the WWW has led in the recent years to important changes in the ways people communicate. An interesting example of this fact is provided by the now very...
Collective dynamics of social annotation (2009)
Cattuto, Ciro, Barrat, Alain, Baldassarri, Andrea, Schehr, G., Loreto, Vittorio
The enormous increase of popularity and use of the WWW has led in the recent years to important changes in the ways people communicate. An interesting example of this fact is provided by the now very...
Emergent Community Structure in Social Tagging Systems (2008)
Cattuto, Ciro, Baldassarri, Andrea, Servedio, Vito D. P., Loreto, Vittorio
A distributed classification paradigm known as collaborative tagging has been widely adopted in new Web applications designed to manage and share online resources. Users of these applications...
Ordering dynamics in the presence of multiple phases (2008)
Petri, Alberto, De Berganza, Miguel Ibanez, Loreto, Vittorio
The dynamics of the 2D Potts ferromagnet when quenched below the transition temperature is investigated in the case of discontinuous phase transition, which is interesting for understandingthe non...
ABSTRACT Network Properties of Folksonomies (2008)
Christoph Schmitz, Miranda Grahl, Andreas Hotho, Gerd Stumme, Ciro Cattuto, Andrea Baldassarri, ...
Social resource sharing systems like YouTube and del.icio.us have acquired a large number of users within the last few years. They provide rich resources for data analysis, information retrieval, and...
A.: Bootstrapping communication in language games: Strategy, topology and all that (2008)
Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto, Alain Barrat
Semiotic dynamics is a fast growing field according to which language can be seen as an evolving and self-organizing system. In this paper we present a simple multi-agent framework able to account...
In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case (2008)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, Steels, Luc
Language emergence and evolution has recently gained growing attention through multi-agent models and mathematical frameworks to study their behavior. Here we investigate further the Naming Game, a...
On the Concept of Complexity in Random Dynamical Systems (2007)
Vittorio Loreto, Giovanni Paladin, Angelo Vulpiani
We introduce a measure of complexity in terms of the average number of bits per time unit necessary to specify the sequence generated by the system. In dynamical systems with small random...
PRESCRIPTIONS C OMPUTING P RESCRIPTIONS ZIPPING OUT RELEVANT INFORMATION (2007)
Dario Benedetto, Emanuele Caglioti, Vittorio Loreto
ological phenomena, which we can represent as sequences of characters. Experimental investigations of physical processes, for instance, typically produce sequences or time series of data. Other...
Statistical physics of social dynamics (2007)
Castellano, Claudio, Fortunato, Santo, Loreto, Vittorio
Statistical physics has proven to be a very fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the realm of traditional physics. The last years have witnessed the attempt by physicists to study...
Dynamic metastability in the two-dimensional Potts model (2007)
De Berganza, Miguel Ibanez, Loreto, Vittorio, Petri, Alberto
We have studied the dynamics just below the temperature-driven critical point of the 2D q-color Potts model in the square lattice, for q=8,12,24. For finite-size systems, a metastable quasi-steady...
Vocabulary growth in collaborative tagging systems (2007)
Cattuto, Ciro, Baldassarri, Andrea, Servedio, Vito D. P., Loreto, Vittorio
We analyze a large-scale snapshot of del.icio.us and investigate how the number of different tags in the system grows as a function of a suitably defined notion of time. We study the temporal...
Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories (2007)
Puglisi, Andrea, Baronchelli, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio
Categories provide a coarse grained description of the world. A fundamental question is whether categories simply mirror an underlying structure of nature, or instead come from the complex...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2007)
Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Alani, Harith, O’Hara, Kieron, Baldassarri, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, ...
While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale community...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2007)
Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Alani, Harith, O’Hara, Kieron, Baldassarri, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, ...
While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale community...
Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation (2007)
Szomszor, Martin, Cattuto, Ciro, Alani, Harith, O’Hara, Kieron, Baldassarri, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio, ...
While the Semantic Web has evolved to support the meaningful exchange of heterogeneous data through shared and controlled conceptualisations, Web 2.0 has demonstrated that large-scale community...
Agreement dynamics on interaction networks with diverse topologies (2007)
Barrat, Alain, Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Luca, Loreto, Vittorio
We review the behavior of a recently introduced model of agreement dynamics, called the Naming Game. This model describes the self-organized emergence of linguistic conventions and the establishment...
Agreement dynamics on interaction networks with diverse topologies (2007)
Barrat, Alain, Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Luca, Loreto, Vittorio
We review the behavior of a recently introduced model of agreement dynamics, called the Naming Game. This model describes the self-organized emergence of linguistic conventions and the establishment...
Network properties of folksonomies (2007)
Schmitz, Christoph, Grahl, Miranda, Hotho, Andreas, Stumme, Gerd, Cattuto, Ciro, Baldassarri, Andrea, ...
Auch erschienen in: Proceedings. WWW2007 Workshop "Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization". Banff, 2007.
Network properties of folksonomies (2007)
Cattuto, Ciro, Schmitz, Christoph, Baldassarri, Andrea, Servedio, Vito D. P., Loreto, Vittorio, Hotho, Andreas, ...
Auch erschienen in: AI Communications. Amsterdam : IOP Press, 2007, Vol. 20, 4, S. 245-262. ISSN 0921-7126
Network properties of folksonomies (2007)
Schmitz, Christoph, Grahl, Miranda, Hotho, Andreas, Stumme, Gerd, Cattuto, Ciro, Baldassarri, Andrea, ...
Auch erschienen in: Proceedings. WWW2007 Workshop "Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization". Banff, 2007.
Network properties of folksonomies (2007)
Cattuto, Ciro, Schmitz, Christoph, Baldassarri, Andrea, Servedio, Vito D. P., Loreto, Vittorio, Hotho, Andreas, ...
Auch erschienen in: AI Communications. Amsterdam : IOP Press, 2007, Vol. 20, 4, S. 245-262. ISSN 0921-7126
Phase separation of the Potts model in que square lattice (2006)
De Berganza, Miguel Ibanez, Ferrero, Ezequiel E., Cannas, Sergio A., Loreto, Vittorio, Petri, Albert
When the two dimensional q-color Potts model in the square lattice is quenched at zero temperature with Glauber dynamics, the energy decreases in time following an Allen-Cahn power law, and the...
Conformal approach to cylindrical DLA (2006)
Taloni, Alessandro, Caglioti, Emanuele, Loreto, Vittorio, Pietronero, Luciano
We extend the conformal mapping approach elaborated for the radial Diffusion Limited Aggregation model (DLA) to the cylindrical geometry. We introduce in particular a complex function which allows to...
Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibriun dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local...
Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibrium dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local...
Phase ordering and symmetries of the Potts model (2006)
De Berganza, Miguel Ibanez, Loreto, Vittorio, Petri, Alberto
We have studied the ordering of the q-colours Potts model in two dimensions on a square lattice. On the basis of our observations we propose that if q is large enough the system is not able to break...
Collaborative Tagging and Semiotic Dynamics (2006)
Cattuto, Ciro, Loreto, Vittorio, Pietronero, Luciano
Collaborative tagging has been quickly gaining ground because of its ability to recruit the activity of web users into effectively organizing and sharing vast amounts of information. Here we collect...
Measuring complexity with zippers (2006)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Caglioti, Emanuele, Loreto, Vittorio
Physics concepts have often been borrowed and independently developed by other fields of science. In this perspective a significant example is that of entropy in Information Theory. The aim of this...
Agreement dynamics on small-world networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we analyze the effect of a non-trivial topology on the dynamics of the so-called Naming Game, a recently introduced model which addresses the issue of how shared conventions emerge...
Topology Induced Coarsening in Language Games (2006)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, L., Barrat, A., Loreto, Vittorio
We investigate how very large populations are able to reach a global consensus, out of local "microscopic" interaction rules, in the framework of a recently introduced class of models of semiotic...
Agreement dynamics on small-world networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we analyze the effect of a non-trivial topology on the dynamics of the so-called Naming Game, a recently introduced model which addresses the issue of how shared conventions emerge...
Topology Induced Coarsening in Language Games (2006)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, L., Barrat, A., Loreto, Vittorio
We investigate how very large populations are able to reach a global consensus, out of local "microscopic" interaction rules, in the framework of a recently introduced class of models of semiotic...
Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibriun dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local...
Agreement dynamics on small-world networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we analyze the effect of a non-trivial topology on the dynamics of the so-called Naming Game, a recently introduced model which addresses the issue of how shared conventions emerge...
Topology Induced Coarsening in Language Games (2006)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, L., Barrat, A., Loreto, Vittorio
We investigate how very large populations are able to reach a global consensus, out of local "microscopic" interaction rules, in the framework of a recently introduced class of models of semiotic...
Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibriun dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local...
Agreement dynamics on small-world networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we analyze the effect of a non-trivial topology on the dynamics of the so-called Naming Game, a recently introduced model which addresses the issue of how shared conventions emerge...
Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
The Naming Game is a model of non-equilibriun dynamics for the self-organized emergence of a linguistic convention or a communication system in a population of agents with pairwise local...
Agreement dynamics on small-world networks (2006)
Dall'Asta, Luca, Baronchelli, Andrea, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we analyze the effect of a non-trivial topology on the dynamics of the so-called Naming Game, a recently introduced model which addresses the issue of how shared conventions emerge...
Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano, José Halloy, Lars Holmquist, Vittorio Loreto, Ricard V. Solé, ...
BLUE PAPER: A RESEARCH ROADMAP FOR DEVELOPING ARTIFICIAL EMBODIED AND COMMUNICATING AGENTS............................................................. 1 1....
Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano, José Halloy, Lars Holmquist, Vittorio Loreto, Ricard V. Solé, ...
EMBODIED AND COMMUNICATING AGENTS............................................................. 1 1....
Andrea Baronchelli, Maddalena Felici, Vittorio Loreto, Emanuele Caglioti, Luc Steels
doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2006/06/P06014 Abstract. What processes can explain how very large populations are able to converge on the use of a particular word or grammatical construction without global...
Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics (2005)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Luca, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
Semiotic dynamics is a novel field that studies how semiotic conventions spread and stabilize in a population of agents. This is a central issue both for theoretical and technological reasons since...
Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics (2005)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Luca, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
Semiotic dynamics is a novel field that studies how semiotic conventions spread and stabilize in a population of agents. This is a central issue both for theoretical and technological reasons since...
Temperature probes in binary granular gases (2005)
Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio, Puglisi, Andrea
We investigate the validity of Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations for a mixture of two granular gases with different physical properties (restitution coefficients or masses) subject to stochastic...
Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratio for Compacting Granular Media (2005)
Barrat, Alain, Colizza, Vittoria, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we investigate the possibility of a dynamical definition of an effective temperature for compacting granular media in the framework of the Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations. We...
Comparison of voter and Glauber ordering dynamics on networks (2005)
Castellano, Claudio, Loreto, Vittorio, Barrat, Alain, Cecconi, Federico, Parisi, Domenico
We study numerically the ordering process of two very simple dynamical models for a two-state variable on several topologies with increasing levels of heterogeneity in the degree distribution. We...
Ring structures and mean first passage time in networks (2005)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we address the problem of the calculation of the mean first passage time (MFPT) on generic graphs. We focus in particular on the mean first passage time on a node 's' for a random...
Comparison of voter and Glauber ordering dynamics on networks (2005)
Castellano, Claudio, Loreto, Vittorio, Barrat, Alain, Cecconi, Federico, Parisi, Domenico
We study numerically the ordering process of two very simple dynamical models for a two-state variable on several topologies with increasing levels of heterogeneity in the degree distribution. We...
Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics (2005)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Luca, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
Semiotic dynamics is a novel field that studies how semiotic conventions spread and stabilize in a population of agents. This is a central issue both for theoretical and technological reasons since...
Comparison of voter and Glauber ordering dynamics on networks (2005)
Castellano, Claudio, Loreto, Vittorio, Barrat, Alain, Cecconi, Federico, Parisi, Domenico
We study numerically the ordering process of two very simple dynamical models for a two-state variable on several topologies with increasing levels of heterogeneity in the degree distribution. We...
Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics (2005)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Dall'Asta, Luca, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
Semiotic dynamics is a novel field that studies how semiotic conventions spread and stabilize in a population of agents. This is a central issue both for theoretical and technological reasons since...
Comparison of voter and Glauber ordering dynamics on networks (2005)
Castellano, Claudio, Loreto, Vittorio, Barrat, Alain, Cecconi, Federico, Parisi, Domenico
We study numerically the ordering process of two very simple dynamical models for a two-state variable on several topologies with increasing levels of heterogeneity in the degree distribution. We...
Influence length and space-time correlation between earthquakes (2004)
Tosi, Patrizia, De Rubeis, Valerio, Loreto, Vittorio, Pietronero, Luciano
Short and long range interactions between earthquakes are attracting increasing interest. Scale invariant properties of seismicity in time, space and energy argue for the presence of complex...
Artificial Sequences and Complexity Measures (2004)
Baronchelli, Andrea, Caglioti, Emanuele, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we exploit concepts of information theory to address the fundamental problem of identifying and defining the most suitable tools to extract, in a automatic and agnostic way, information...
Temperature probes in binary granular gases (2003)
Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio, Puglisi, Andrea
We investigate the validity of Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations for a mixture of two granular gases with different physical properties (restitution coefficients or masses) subject to stochastic...
Defining and identifying communities in networks (2003)
Radicchi, Filippo, Castellano, Claudio, Cecconi, Federico, Loreto, Vittorio, Parisi, Domenico
The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the...
Temperature probes in binary granular gases (2003)
Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio, Puglisi, Andrea
We investigate the validity of Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations for a mixture of two granular gases with different physical properties (restitution coefficients or masses) subject to stochastic...
Temperature probes in binary granular gases (2003)
Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio, Puglisi, Andrea
We investigate the validity of Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations for a mixture of two granular gases with different physical properties (restitution coefficients or masses) subject to stochastic...
Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratio for Compacting Granular Media (2002)
Barrat, Alain, Colizza, Vittoria, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we investigate the possibility of a dynamical definition of an effective temperature for compacting granular media in the framework of the Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations. We...
Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratio for Compacting Granular Media (2002)
Barrat, Alain, Colizza, Vittoria, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we investigate the possibility of a dynamical definition of an effective temperature for compacting granular media in the framework of the Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations. We...
Fluctuation-Dissipation Ratio for Compacting Granular Media (2002)
Barrat, Alain, Colizza, Vittoria, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we investigate the possibility of a dynamical definition of an effective temperature for compacting granular media in the framework of the Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations. We...
Fluctuation-dissipation ratio for compacting granular media (2002)
Barrat, Alain, Colizza, Vittoria, Loreto, Vittorio
In this paper we investigate the possibility of a dynamical definition of an effective temperature for compacting granular media in the framework of the Fluctuation-Dissipation (FD) relations. We...
On the definition of temperature in dense granular media (2001)
Colizza, Vittoria, Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
In this Letter we report the measurement of a pseudo-temperature for compacting granular media on the basis of the Fluctuation-Dissipation relations in the aging dynamics of a model system. From the...
Language Trees and Zipping (2001)
Benedetto, Dario, Caglioti, Emanuele, Loreto, Vittorio
In this letter we present a very general method to extract information from a generic string of characters, e.g. a text, a DNA sequence or a time series. Based on data-compression techniques, its key...
Edwards' measures: a thermodynamic construction for dense granular media and glasses (2000)
Barrat, Alain, Kurchan, Jorge, Loreto, Vittorio, Sellitto, Mauro
We present numerical support for the hypothesis that macroscopic observables of dense granular media can be evaluated from averages over typical blocked configurations: we construct the corresponding...
Edwards\' measures: a thermodynamic construction for dense granular media and glasses (2000)
Barrat, Alain, Kurchan, Jorge, Loreto, Vittorio, Sellitto, Mauro
We present numerical support for the hypothesis that macroscopic observables of dense granular media can be evaluated from averages over typical blocked configurations: we construct the corresponding...
Response properties in a model for granular matter (1999)
Barrat, Alain, Loreto, Vittorio
We investigate the response properties of granular media in the framework of the so-called {\em Random Tetris Model}. We monitor, for different driving procedures, several quantities: the evolution...
Bubbling and Large-Scale Structures in Avalanche Dynamics (1999)
Krishnamurthy, Supriya, Loreto, Vittorio, Roux, Stephane
Using a simple lattice model for granular media, we present a scenario of self-organization that we term self-organized structuring where the steady state has several unusual features: (1) large...
Renormalization of Systems with Non-equilibrium Critical Stationary States (1996)
Vespignani, Alessandro, Zapperi, Stefano, Loreto, Vittorio
We introduce the general formulation of a renormalization method suitable to study the critical properties of non-equilibrium systems with steady-states: the Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group....
Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group (1996)
Vespignani, Alessandro, Zapperi, Stefano, Loreto, Vittorio
We present a detailed discussion of a novel dynamical renormalization group scheme: the Dynamically Driven Renormalization Group (DDRG). This is a general renormalization method developed for...
Defining and identifying communities in networks
Radicchi, Filippo, Castellano, Claudio, Cecconi, Federico, Loreto, Vittorio, Parisi, Domenico
The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the...
Defining and identifying communities in networks
Radicchi, Filippo, Castellano, Claudio, Cecconi, Federico, Loreto, Vittorio, Parisi, Domenico
The investigation of community structures in networks is an important issue in many domains and disciplines. This problem is relevant for social tasks (objective analysis of relationships on the...
Semiotic dynamics and collaborative tagging
Cattuto, Ciro, Loreto, Vittorio, Pietronero, Luciano
Collaborative tagging has been quickly gaining ground because of its ability to recruit the activity of web users into effectively organizing and sharing vast amounts of information. Here we collect...
EMERGENT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN SOCIAL TAGGING SYSTEMS
CIRO CATTUTO, ANDREA BALDASSARRI, VITTORIO LORETO
A distributed classification paradigm known as collaborative tagging has been widely adopted in new Web applications designed to manage and share online resources. Users of these applications...
Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories
Puglisi, Andrea, Baronchelli, Andrea, Loreto, Vittorio
Categories provide a coarse-grained description of the world. A fundamental question is whether categories simply mirror an underlying structure of nature or instead come from the complex...
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Andrea Baronchelli, Departament Física, Enginyeria Nuclear, Vittorio Loreto
In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case