Workshop on Populations & Crowds: Dynamics, Disruptions and their Computational Models
Abstract
Populations and crowds appear to share many features in common. Both are aggregates of individuals that display group-level organization in space and time. Both are systems through which cultural information and beliefs, as well as genes and diseases, may propagate. And both are capable of turning from benign to hostile. Despite these many similarities, populations and crowds are often treated separately in theoretical and empirical studies. The different temporal and spatial scales at which people conceive of populations and crowds are at least partially responsible for this conceptual separation; the former evolve on time scales of years or more and occupy sometimes vast spatial regions, while the latter may evolve on time scales of minutes to hours and are generally spatially compact phenomena.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2015
- Accession Number
- ADA622035
Entities
People
- Milind Tambe
- P. J. Brantigham
Organizations
- University of Southern California