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Logo Complex Systems Research Group The Section for Science of Complex Systems, formerly Complex Systems Research Group (COSY), pursues quantitative complex systems research at the Medical University of Vienna - ranging from life science, quantitative social sciences, to applied mathematics and fundamental physics. The section is part of the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems.

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2012-03-01Seminar Vorbesprechung LVs SS 2012


Selected Publications

R. Hanel, S. Thurner, and M. Gell-Mann
Generalized entropies and the transformation group of superstatistics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108, 6390-6394, (2011) [bib]

@ARTICLE{hanel2011get,
  author = {Hanel, R.~ and Thurner, S.~ and Gell-Mann, M.~},
  title = {Generalized entropies and the transformation group of superstatistics},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA},
  year = {2011},
  volume = {108},
  number = {16},
  pages = {6390--6394},
  url = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1103539108}
}


R. Hanel and S. Thurner
A comprehensive classification of complex statistical systems and an ab initio derivation of their entropy and distribution functions
Europhysics Letters 93, 20006, (2011) [bib]

@ARTICLE{hanel2011ccc,
  author = {Hanel, R.~ and Thurner, S.~},
  title = {A comprehensive classification of complex statistical systems and an ab initio derivation of their entropy and distribution functions},
  journal = {Europhysics Letters},
  year = {2011},
  volume = {93},
  pages = {20006},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0138}
}


H. Meyer-Ortmanns and S. Thurner
Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life
Springer, Heidelberg, 2011 (416 pages) [bib]

@ARTICLE{meyerortmanns2011pep,
  author = {Meyer-Ortmanns, H.~ and Thurner, S.~},
  title = { Principles of Evolution: From the Planck Epoch to Complex Multicellular Life},
  journal = {Springer, Heidelberg},
  year = {2011},
  number = {ISBN: 978-3-642-1813},
  note = {416 pages},
  url = {http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Evolution-Multicellular-Frontiers-Collection/dp/3642181368}
}


S. Thurner and R. Hanel
Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average
2010 (in review) [bib]

@ARTICLE{thurner2010pww,
  author = {Thurner, S.~ and Hanel, R.~},
  title = {Peer-review in a world with rational scientists: Toward selection of the average},
  journal = {},
  year = {2010},
  note = {in review},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4324}
}


M. Szell, R. Lambiotte, and S. Thurner
Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, 13636-13641, (2010) [bib]

@ARTICLE{szell2010mol,
  author = {Szell, M.~ and Lambiotte, R.~ and Thurner, S.~},
  title = {Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {107},
  number = {31},
  pages = {13636--13641},
  url = {http://www.pnas.org/content/107/31/13636}
}


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