About COSS
Research of the Computational Social Science (COSS) group aims at three-fold integration:
1. bringing modeling and computer simulation of techno-socio-economic processes and phenomena together with related empirical, experimental, and data-driven work,
2. combining perspectives of different scientific disciplines (e.g. social, data, computational and complexity science), and
3. bridging between fundamental and applied work.
The research focus has quickly moved from studying pedestrian crowds and vehicle traffic to studying social coordination, cooperation, norms, and conflicts, collective opinion formation, and the wisdom of crowds. The team uses methods such as evolutionary game theoretical modelling, agent-based computer simulations, as well as lab and web experiments. The COSS team is also interested in systemic risk and resilience, the importance of complexity science for digital models of the world, the ethics of smart cities, digital democracy, and the development of a socio-ecological finance system («Finance 4.0», «FIN4+»).
The Computational Social Science (COSS) team publishes in highly competitive journals, enjoys an international reputation, and runs internationally visible research projects. Applications reach from network models of epidemic spreading over virtual reality simulations of the Love Parade disaster to digital assistance systems for increased sustainability. Incentive systems supporting collective intelligence and a multi-dimensional, socio-ecological finance system are also of interest.
Publication Topics
Letters in Journals
- M. Schich, C. Song, Y. Y. Ahn, A. Mirsky, Martino, M., Barabási, A. L., & Helbing,D. (2014) external pageA network framework of cultural historycall_made. Science 345(6196), 558-562.
- D. Brockmann and D. Helbing (2013) external pageThe hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomenacall_made. Science 342(6164), 1337–1342.
- M. Moussaïd, D. Helbing, and G. Theraulaz (2011) external pageHow simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasterscall_made. PNAS 108 (17) 6884-6888.
- D. Helbing and W. Yu (2010) external pageThe future of social experimentingcall_made. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 107(12), 5265-5266.
See the full list of Systemic Risks, Global Systems Science, and Data Science
Letters in Journals
- M. Schich, C. Song, Y. Y. Ahn, A. Mirsky, Martino, M., Barabási, A. L., & Helbing, D. (2014) external pageA network framework of cultural historycall_made. Science 345(6196), 558-562.
- H. Rauhut, J. Lorenz, F. Schweitzer, and D. Helbing (2011) external pageReply to Farrell: Improved individual estimation success can imply collective tunnel visioncall_made. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 108(36), E626-E626.
- C. P. Roca and D. Helbing (2011) external pageEmergence of social cohesion in a model society of greedy, mobile individualscall_made. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 108(28), 11370-11374.
- J. Lorenz, H. Rauhut, F. Schweitzer, and D. Helbing (2011) external pageHow social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effectcall_made. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 108(28), 9020-9025.
- D. Helbing and W. Yu (2010) external pageThe future of social experimentingcall_made. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 107(12), 5265-5266.
- D. Helbing and W. Yu (2009) The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 106(8), 3680-3685.
- L. M. A. Bettencourt, J. Lobo, D. Helbing, C. Kühnert, and G. B. West (2007) external pageGrowth, innovation, scaling and the pace of life in citiescall_made. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 104, 7301-7306.
- I. Farkas, D. Helbing, and T. Vicsek (2002) external pageMexican waves in an excitable mediumcall_made. Nature 419, 131-132.
See the full list of Social Sciences Publications
Letters in Journals
- D. Brockmann and D. Helbing (2013) external pageThe hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomenacall_made. Science 342(6164), 1337–1342.
- D. Helbing (2013): external pageGlobally networked risks and how to respondcall_made. Nature 497, 51–59.
- I. Simonsen, L. Buzna, K. Peters, S. Bornholdt, and D. Helbing (2008) external pageTransient dynamics increasing network vulnerability to cascading failurescall_made. Physical Review Letters 100(21), 1-4.
See the full list of Networks Publications
Letters in Journals
- M. Moussaïd, D. Helbing, and G. Theraulaz (2011) external pageHow simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasterscall_made. PNAS 108 (17) 6884-6888.
- D. Helbing, A. Johansson, J. Mathiesen, M.H. Jensen, and A. Hansen (2006) external pageAnalytical approach to continuous and intermittent bottleneck flows.call_made Physical Review Letters 97, 168001.
- D. Helbing, I. Farkas, and T. Vicsek (2000) external pageSimulating dynamical features of escape paniccall_made. Nature 407, 487-490.
- D. Helbing, I. Farkas, and T. Vicsek (2000) external pageFreezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic systemcall_made. Physical Review Letters 84, 1240-1243.
- D. Helbing, J. Keltsch, and P. Molnár (1997) external pageModelling the evolution of human trail systemscall_made. Nature 388, 47-50.
See the full list of Pedestrians and Crowds Publications
Letters in Journals
- C. Leduc, K. Padberg-Gehle, V. Varga, D. Helbing, S. Diez, and J. Howard (2012) external pageMolecular crowding creates traffic jams of kinesin motors on microtubulescall_made. PNAS 16, 6100-6105.
- D. Helbing and M. Schreckenberg (1999) external pageCellular automata simulating experimental properties of traffic flowscall_made. Physical Review E 59, R2505-R2508.
- D. Helbing, A. Hennecke, and M. Treiber (1999) external pagePhase diagram of traffic states in the presence of inhomogeneitiescall_made. Physical Review Letters 82, 4360-4363.
- D. Helbing and B. A. Huberman (1998) external pageCoherent moving states in highway trafficcall_made. Nature 396, 738-740.
- D. Helbing and M. Treiber (1998) external pageJams, waves, and clusterscall_made. Science 282, 2001-2003.
- D. Helbing and M. Treiber (1998) external pageGas-kinetic-based traffic model explaining observed hysteretic phase transitioncall_made. Physical Review Letters 81, 3042-3045.
See the full list of Pedestrians, Crowds and Vehicular Traffic Publications