Mission

Logo Complex Systems Research Group The Section for Science of Complex Systems, formerly known as 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.

Selected Publications

R. Hanel and S. Thurner
A classification of complex statistical systems in terms of their stability and a thermodynamical derivation of their entropy and distribution functions
2010 (in review) [bib]

@ARTICLE{hanel2010ccs,
  author = {Hanel, R.~ and Thurner, S.~}
  title = {A classification of complex statistical systems in terms of their stability and a thermodynamical derivation of their entropy and distribution functions},
  journal = {},
  year = {2010},
  note = {in review},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.0138}
}


M. Szell, R. Lambiotte, and S. Thurner
Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks in an online world
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2010 (in print) [bib]

@ARTICLE{szell2010mol,
  author = {Szell, M.~ and Lambiotte, R.~ and Thurner, S.~}
  title = {Multirelational organization of large-scale social networks in an online world},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA},
  year = {2010},
  note = {in print},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.5137}
}


S. Thurner, P. Klimek, and R. Hanel
Schumpeterian economic dynamics as a quantifiable minimum model of evolution
New Journal of Physics, 2010 (in print) [bib]

@ARTICLE{thurner2010sed,
  author = {Thurner, S.~ and Klimek, P.~ and Hanel, R.~}
  title = {Schumpeterian economic dynamics as a quantifiable minimum model of evolution},
  journal = {New Journal of Physics},
  year = {2010},
  note = {in print},
  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3482}
}


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