Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-Economic and Life Sciences

Economic modelling and financial markets.- Agent-based models of economic interactions.- On kinetic asset exchange models and beyond: microeconomic formulation,trade network, and all that.- Microscopic and kinetic models in financial markets.- A mathematical theory for wealth distribution.- Tolstoy’s dream and the quest for statistical equilibrium in economics and the social sciences.- Social modelling and opinion formation.- New perspectives in the equilibrium statistical mechanics approach to social and economic sciences.- Kinetic modelling of complex socio-economic systems.- Mathematics and physics applications in sociodynamics simulation: the case of opinion formation and diffusion.- Global dynamics in adaptive models of collective choice with social influence.- Modelling opinion formation by means of kinetic equations.- Human behavior and swarming.- On the modelling of vehicular traffic and crowds by kinetic theory of active particles.- Particle, kinetic, and hydrodynamic models of swarming.- Modeling self-organization in pedestrians and animal groups from macroscopic and microscopic viewpoints.- Statistical physics and modern human warfare.- Diffusive and nondiffusive population models.