Competition between languages or cultural traits diffusing in the same geographical area is
studied combining the model of Abrams and Strogatz with a model of human dispersal on an …

The naming game (NG) describes the agreement dynamics of a population of agents that
interact locally in a pairwise fashion, and in recent years statistical physics tools and …

Social conventions govern countless behaviors all of us engage in every day, from how we
greet each other to the languages we speak. But how can shared conventions emerge …

The present contribution reviews a set of different versions of the basic naming game model,
differing in the underlying topology or in the mechanisms regulating the interactions …

This cross-disciplinary volume provides an overview of how complexity theory and the tools
of statistical mechanics can be applied to linguistic problems to help reveal language …

Human language provides a highly efficient communication system, which emerged due to
cultural interactions. To understand this still mysterious process, various interdisciplinary …

Although there can only be a single author of a thesis, it is never truly the work of a single
person. For one, ideas don't belong to one person, they are born and shaped in discussion …

We examine a naming game on an adaptive weighted network. A weight of connection for a
given pair of agents depends on their communication success rate and determines the …

Computational modelling with multi-agent systems has become an important technique in
studying language evolution. We present a brief introduction into this rapidly developing …

The naming game (NG) describes the agreement dynamics of a population of N agents
interacting locally in pairs leading to the emergence of a shared vocabulary. This model has …