Projects / Programmes
Fizika konfliktov in njihova razrešitev (Slovene)
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 1.02.02 |
Natural sciences and mathematics |
Physics |
Theoretical physics |
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
23428 |
PhD Matjaž Perc |
Physics |
Head |
2009 - 2011 |
673 |
Organisations (1)
Significance for science
Results of the project have revealed new mechanisms via which coevolutionary processes and complex networks constructively affect order and coherence in physical systems and societies. Especially the constructive effect on the social dynamics is new, and thus represents a substantial contribution to the scientific development, facilitating an interdisciplinary approach that nowadays seems of essential importance for success and propagation. Results of the project also indicate new and innovative directions for the preservation of cultural heritage, thereby additionally enriching the scientific literature. Within the postdoctoral project we have also revealed new ways of how to achieve synchronization among entities with diverse and evolving properties, both in social and physical systems. Physics of social systems, or the so-called sociophysics, offers many open questions and challenges for the following years, and we are certain that the results of this project will significantly contribute to the continuing development and growth of this avenue of research in the future.
Significance for the country
Because the performed studies are via evolutionary game theory intimately linked with economy and sociology, the results of the project surely have weight, albeit in an indirect manner, also in the light of the socio-economic development of the Republic of Slovenia. In particular the specification of optimal conditions, in the sense of coevolutionary processes as well as interaction networks, at which cooperation and with it related social welfare is maximal, can have a positive effect on the socio-economic development of Slovenia, provided, of course, an appropriate interest and engagement of competent individuals and/or institutions is at hand. Coevolutionary processes are easily integrated into an institution or the socio-economic apparatus in general, either through praise, punishment or awards, which, if appropriately selected, can raise the productivity and output of a company. Of course more successful individuals have to be awarded more often and vice versa. Although the outlined approach appears trivial and often used, the studies performed in the framework of the postdoctoral project reveal precise mechanisms and optimal conditions at which these rather simple techniques have the optimal effect. One of the primary goals of this postdoctoral project also was to produce new and useful knowledge that can compete with related output from scientists around the World. The thus far successful execution is thus putting Slovenia on the map of leading advances in the fields of research tackled within the project. At the same time, the output of the project is now readily available to interested individuals or institutions, thus effectively fostering the propagation of this knowledge to sectors that are essentially detached from scientific advancements made within physics.
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
