Monday 12 September 2016

Fractional calculus: A new language for explaining crowd behavior

(Chinese Association of Automation) A generalized form of traditional integral calculus, fractional calculus comes preinstalled with a way to account for long-range interactions among particles, or people. Each object in a fractional order model is given a memory that persists much longer than the short-lived interactions among particles. People remember past interactions and negotiate to carve out the best route, often in highly complex, zigzag patterns. Fractional calculus therefore provides a much more realistic picture of crowd behavior.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2cyRNlV

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