This chapter contains sections titled: The Purpose of This Book, Brief History of the Study of
the Knowledge Commons, Study of Traditional Commons, Knowledge as a Resource, The …

• Why do people behave and think the way they do?• What makes people choose certain
products and services?• How does consumption affect our everyday lives? Informed by …

Chaotic dynamical systems are ubiquitous in nature and most of them does not have an
explicit dynamical equation and can be only understood through the available time series …

Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-
based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However …

At this time, explosive synchronization (ES) of networked oscillators is thought of as being
rooted in the setting of specific microscopic correlation features between the natural …

The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an
avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the …

Abstract [This book] packages the discipline [of social psychology] in thirty-one crisp and
playful essays (" modules"). This is the ultimate brief text in social psychology—a quick …

Viewed in this analysis from a statistical physics perspective, the Internet is perceived as a
developing system that evolves through the addition and removal of nodes and links. This …

An extensive analysis of user traffic on Gnutella shows a significant amount of free riding in
the system. By sampling messages on the Gnutella network over a 24-hour period, we …

There is an increasing concern about the implications of recent and impending legislation
on the future of academic research, open science, traditional knowledge, and the intellectual …