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Personal vs. know-how contacts: which matter more in wiki elections?

The use of online social media is also connected with the real world. A very common example of this is the effect of social media coverage on the chances of success of elections. Previous literature has identi...

Authors: Yousra Asim, Muaz A. Niazi, Basit Raza and Ahmad Kamran Malik

Embodied modeling approach to explore tumour cells drug resistance

Mathematical modelling provides mechanistic insight of an infirmity by emulating the course of disease on individual or group level under various interventions and hence makes pragmatic contribution to complem...

Authors: Ayesha Sohail, Lubna Sherin, Zhiwu Li and Qasim Ali Chaudhry

Agent-based models and industrial organization theory. A price-competition algorithm for agent-based models based on Game Theory

Simulating markets using agent-based models must consider pricing. However, the strategic nature of prices limits the development of agent-based models with endogenous price competition.

Authors: Juan Manuel Sanchez-Cartas

A scheme to analyze agent-based social simulations using exploratory data mining techniques

Exploring and understanding outputs from agent-based models is challenging due to a relatively higher number of parameters and multidimensionality of the generated data. We use a combination of exploratory and...

Authors: M. Hammad Patel, Mujtaba Ahmed Abbasi, M. Saeed and Shah Jamal Alam

The Lattice Boltzmann method and computational analysis of bone dynamics-I

Bone is comprised of an enormously hierarchical construction that promotes transportation of necessary fluids and solids, guaranteeing accurate function and growth. Bone remodeling is a combined process of bon...

Authors: Sana Javed, Ayesha Sohail, Khadija Maqbool, Saad Ihsan Butt and Qasim Ali Chaudhry

A review of “Random graphs and complex networks” by Hofstad

Hofstad, R

Authors: Ghulam Abbas

Formal model of earthquake disaster mitigation and management system

Wireless sensor and actors networks (WSANs) have become an important research area due to its large number of applications in safety, security and mission-critical systems. Natural disasters such as earthquake...

Authors: Nazir Ahmad Zafar and Hamra Afzaal

An agent-based simulation of cooperation in the use of irrigation systems

This study presents an agent-based simulation of the formation of cooperation in using irrigation. The simulation model is developed based on our understanding of the underlying mechanisms by which farmer hous...

Authors: Jingjing Cai and Hang Xiong

The generalized traveling salesman problem solved with ant algorithms

Authors: Camelia-M. Pintea, Petrică C. Pop and Camelia Chira

Why teach modeling & simulation in schools?

Authors: Muaz A. Niazi and Anatoly Temkin

The value of systems and complexity sciences for healthcare: a review

Editor: Joachim P. Sturmberg

Authors: Fozia Anwar, Afifa Yousafzai and Muaz A. Niazi

A game-theory modeling approach to utility and strength of interactions dynamics in biomedical research social networks

Collaboration has become a cornerstone in biomedical research today. In contrast to physics which has a long history and experience in collaborative projects, biology is only recently becoming an evermore coll...

Authors: J. Mario Siqueiros-García, Rodrigo García-Herrera, Enrique Hernández-Lemus and Sergio Alcalá-Corona

Modeling the internet of things: a hybrid modeling approach using complex networks and agent-based models

Sensors, coupled with transceivers, have quickly evolved from technologies purely confined to laboratory test beds to workable solutions used across the globe. These mobile and connected devices form the nuts ...

Authors: Komal Batool and Muaz A. Niazi

Multi-Agent Foraging: state-of-the-art and research challenges

The foraging task is one of the canonical testbeds for cooperative robotics, in which a collection of robots has to search and transport objects to specific storage point(s). In this paper, we investigate the Mu...

Authors: Ouarda Zedadra, Nicolas Jouandeau, Hamid Seridi and Giancarlo Fortino

A computational treatment of generalized reference

Medieval logic defined reference as a relation between language and objects in the world. Recently, however, the term ``representational token'' has been used instead of language (Reimer and Michaelson in The...

Authors: Roland Hausser

A Cognitive Agent-based Model for Multi-Robot Coverage at a City Scale

In this article, we model a behavior-based strategy of autonomous coverage and exploration at the scale of a city with multiple robots. The behavioral components are motivated by Cepeda et al. (Sensors 12 (9):...

Authors: Kashif Zia, Ahmad Din, Khurram Shahzad and Alois Ferscha

Formal analysis of subnet-based failure recovery algorithm in wireless sensor and actor and network

Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) have various applications in safety and mission critical systems. Sensors are used for sensing the information whereas actors for taking intelligent decisions. Develo...

Authors: Hamra Afzaal and Nazir Ahmad Zafar

Erratum to: A survey on MAC protocols for complex self-organizing cognitive radio networks

Authors: Munam Ali Shah, Sijing Zhang, Muhammad Kamran, Qaisar Javaid and Bahjat Fatima

Towards internet of things modeling: a gateway approach

Internet of things (IoT) is an interaction between more than one network to facilitate communication. These networks by themselves are complex networks. Therefore, IoT network is expected to grow at unpreceden...

Authors: Ahmed B. Altamimi and Rabie A. Ramadan

Formation of reciprocal appreciation patterns in small groups: an agent-based model

In small cooperative and collaborative groups, patterns of interaction, discourse and dialogue are often strongly bidirectional; ties are reciprocal and reciprocated. This reciprocation of ties leads to the fo...

Authors: Ismo T. Koponen and Maija Nousiainen

Review of “CiteSpace: A Practical Guide For Mapping Scientific Literature” by Chaomei Chen

Chen, C

Authors: Muaz A. Niazi

Combining graph embedding and sparse regression with structure low-rank representation for semi-supervised learning

In this paper, we propose a novel method for semi-supervised learning by combining graph embedding and sparse regression, termed as graph embedding and sparse regression with structure low rank representation ...

Authors: Cong-Zhe You, Vasile Palade and Xiao-Jun Wu

Self-enforcing agreement in cooperative teams: an agent-based modeling approach

In cooperative teams (such as agricultural cooperatives), self-enforcing agreement plays a critical role in guaranteeing members’ work incentives when the monitoring from a third party is absent. In order to p...

Authors: Hang Xiong, Stephen Kinsella and Diane Payne

Managing and engineering complex technological systems: a review

Zonnenshain A, Stauber S.

Authors: Ghulam Abbas

Mathematical modeling and optimization of complex structures: a review

Pekka Neittaanmäki, Sergey Repin and Tero Tuovinen (Eds.).

Authors: Samia Riaz, Qasim Ali Chaudhry and Sidra Siddiqui