Dirk Helbing Explained

Dirk Helbing
Birth Date: January 19, 1965
Birth Place:Aalen, Germany[1]
Nationality:German
Alma Mater:University of Göttingen (1986)
Doctoral Advisor:Wolfgang Weidlich
Academic Advisors:Manfred R. Schroeder
Known For:Social force model, crowd simulation, traffic simulation, pedestrian microsimulation, complex systems, computational social science
Field:Complex Systems, Computational Social Science
Work Institution:ETH Zurich (2007–)[2]
TU Delft (2015)[3]
University of Oxford (2010)[4]
(host: Peter Hedström)
Harvard University (2010)[5]
(hosts: Martin Nowak, Nicholas A. Christakis)
INRETS (2004)
(host: Patrick Lebacque)[6]
TU Dresden (2000)[7]
Collegium Budapest, Hungary (2000)[8]
Tel Aviv University (1999)
(hosts: Isaac Goldhirsch, Eshel Ben-Jacob)[9]
Eötvös Loránd University (1998)
(host: Tamás Vicsek)
Xerox PARC (1998)
(host: Bernardo Huberman)[10]
Weizmann Institute of Science (1997)
(host: David Mukamel)[11]
University of Stuttgart (1996)[12]
Prizes:Golden Idea Award 2012[13]

Dirk Helbing (born January 19, 1965) is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences and affiliate of the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich.

Biography

Dirk Helbing studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. He completed his doctoral thesis at Stuttgart University, on modeling social processes by means of game-theoretical approaches, stochastic methods, and complex systems theory.[14] In 1996, he completed further studies on traffic dynamics and optimization.

In 2000, he became a full professor and Managing Director of the Institute for Transport and Economics at Dresden University of Technology.[15] Helbing was elected as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2008[16] and of the World Academy of Art and Science in 2016.[17] In January 2014 Prof. Helbing received an honorary PhD from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).[18] [19] Since June 2015 he is affiliate professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft, where he leads the PhD school in "Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future".[20]

Research activities

Dirk Helbing started out as a physicist. His diploma thesis focussed on pedestrian, crowd, and evacuation modeling and simulation.[21] During his PhD and habilitation in physics,[22] he helped to establish the fields of socio-, econo- and traffic physics.[23] [24] He was also co-founder of the Physics of Socio-Economic Systems Division of the German Physical Society (DPG).[25] As a visiting scientist at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel, the Eötvös University in Budapest, and Xerox PARC in California, he focused on a broad variety of complex systems - including the self-organisation of pedestrians,[26] traffic jams,[27] bacterial patterns,[28] and Mexican waves.[29] At Dresden University of Technology he became the Managing Director of the Institute of Transport & Economics,[30] worked on traffic assistant systems (i.e. early self-driving cars)[31] [32] and a self-organized traffic light control system,[33] [34] [35] which was patented. He found that crowd disasters are caused by a phenomenon called "crowd turbulence" and worked on ways to describe, reduce and respond to such disasters.[36] As professor of Sociology at ETH Zurich, he worked on evolutionary game theory[37] [38] and agent-based computer simulations of social processes and phenomena.[39]

The work of Prof. Helbing has been widely cited in the media and academia and he has written more than 10 papers in Nature,[40] Science[41] and PNAS.[42] In 2012, he won the Idee Suisse Award.[43] He co-founded the Competence Center for Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems,[44] the Risk Center,[45] the Institute for Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP)[46] and the Decision Science Laboratory (DeSciL).[47] While coordinating the FuturICT initiative,[48] he helped to further develop disciplines such as data science, computational social science, and global systems science in Europe.[49] This work resulted in the establishment of the Nervousnet Platform, a smartphone app enabling users to share data to be used to achieve scientific and social goals and lay the groundwork for digital democracy.[50] [51] Helbing worked for the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems. He was elected member of the External Faculty of the Santa Fe Institute[52] and now belongs to the External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.[53] He sits in the Boards of the Global Brain Institute in Brussels[54] and the International Centre for Earth Simulation in Geneva.[55] He is also involved in the activities of "Staatslabor" (a Swiss government science initiative)[56] as well as the establishment of the Blockchain [X][57] initiative and the Blockchain Lab in Delft.[58] [59] He is a member of a Swiss governmental advisory group on the societal impact of digitization[60] [61] and was lead author of a "Digital Manifesto" on how to safeguard democratic values in the digital age.[62] Prof. Helbing is an adviser to the Citizen Science Center Zurich [63] and is an advocate of a European Charter of Digital Human Rights.[64]

Dirk Helbing is known for the social force model,[65] in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds.[66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] Besides the slower-is-faster effect,[74] he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect [75] and the phase diagram of congested traffic states.[76] [77] [78] Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary game theory[79] and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions.[80] His work has applied the principles of collective intelligence and self-organized control to the optimization of urban [81] and freeway traffic.[82] He has conducted research into norms and conflict, and the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals,[83] socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems,[84] [85] the spread of disaster [86] [87] and crisis management.[88]

Living Earth Simulator

Helbing was the Principal Investigator on a project named FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis Relief System, a computing system working on big datasets, conceived as sort of a crystal ball of the world. The core of the system is the Living Earth Simulator, a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes". However, the project lost in the final round of the application for funding from the European Commission of €1 billion.[89] Despite this, the ideas developed by the group have influenced international research programs.[90] Since 2017, the FuturICT 2.0 project is being funded by the European Commission's FLAG-ERA program.[91]

Noteworthy projects and presentations by Dirk Helbing's research teams in Dresden, Zurich and Delft

Controversies

Allegations of inappropriate presentation content

In February 2022, during a lecture Professor Dirk Helbing presented a slide that some students from ETH Zurich considered inappropriate and insensitive to the Chinese community.[109] [110] The students raise their concerns both to Professor Helbing and the ETH Zurich Ombudsman and Respect Advice Center, the latter of which provides services related to inappropriate behaviours, discrimination, bullying or allegations at the Institute. A group of Chinese students also wrote open letters to ETH Zurich to address this issue.

Social-media comments and death threats

This allegations by the students were mentioned on LinkedIn and received a lot of comments from students and researchers worldwide.[111] In addition, it was mentioned that Professor Dirk Helbing received death threats.[112]

Investigation and closure

Following an investigation and discussion with the ETH Zurich Ombudsman and Respect Advice center, Professor Dirk Helbing presented an apology statement on Twitter[113] and LinkedIn Accounts.[114] The ETH Zurich Twitter account also mentioned the apology[115] from Professor Dirk Helbing. Despite the persistent controversies and ongoing expressions of disappointment from the society, ETH Zurich proceeded to close the issue.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NZZ Podium: Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. de. 2017-05-12.
  2. Web site: Helbing, Dirk, Prof. Dr. www.ethz.ch. de. 2017-05-12.
  3. Web site: People. www.tudelft.nl. 2017-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20160725220730/http://www.tbm.tudelft.nl/en/research/engineering-social-technologies-for-a-responsible-digital-future/people/. 2016-07-25. dead.
  4. Web site: Professor Dirk Helbing, "Cooperation, Norms and Conflict: Towards Stimulating the Foundations of Society". Oxford Martin. 2017-05-12.
  5. Web site: Previous Guest Researchers. www.harvard.edu. 2017-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20161026222429/http://ped.fas.harvard.edu/previous-guest-researchers. 2016-10-26. dead.
  6. Book: 10.1007/0-387-25805-1_15 . Self-Organized Control of Irregular or Perturbed Network Traffic . Optimal Control and Dynamic Games . 7 . 239–74 . Advances in Computational Management Science . 2005 . Helbing . Dirk . Lämmer . Stefan . Lebacque . Jean-Patrick . 0-387-25804-3 . physics/0511018 . 13493932 .
  7. Web site: Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen. www.tu-dresden.de. de. 2017-05-12.
  8. 10.1038/35035023 . 11028994 . 2000 . Helbing . Dirk . Simulating dynamical features of escape panic . Nature . 407 . 6803 . 487–90 . Farkas . Illés . Vicsek . Tamás . 2000Natur.407..487H . cond-mat/0009448 . 310346 .
  9. Book: Helbing, Dirk . 1998 . A Perspective Look at Nonlinear Media: From Physics to Biology and Social Sciences . Berlin . Springer . 122 . 978-3-662-14190-8.
  10. Book: 10.1007/978-3-642-59751-0_18 . Optimizing Traffic in Virtual and Real Space . Traffic and Granular Flow '99 . limited . 193–204 . 2000 . Helbing . D. . Huberman . B. A. . Maurer . S. M. . 978-3-642-64109-1 . 119431705 .
  11. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.10 . Global Phase Diagram of a One-Dimensional Driven Lattice Gas . Physical Review Letters . 82 . 1 . 10–13 . 1999 . Helbing . Dirk . Mukamel . David . Schütz . Gunter M. . 1999PhRvL..82...10H . cond-mat/9901158 . 52250340 .
  12. 10.1103/PhysRevE.58.133 . Generalized force model of traffic dynamics . Physical Review E . 58 . 1 . 133–138 . 1998 . Helbing . Dirk . Tilch . Benno . 1998PhRvE..58..133H . cond-mat/9806243 . 119095859 .
  13. Web site: Golden Idea Award. Idee Suisse. de. 2017-05-12.
  14. News: NZZ Podium: Dirk Helbing. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 2017-05-12. de-CH.
  15. Web site: Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen. TU Dresden. 2017-05-12.
  16. Web site: Mitgliederverzeichnis. www.leopoldina.org. de. 2017-05-12.
  17. Web site: World Academy of Art & Science: General Listing. www.worldacademy.org. 2017-05-12. 2019-03-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328062055/http://worldacademy.org/view/general-listing. dead.
  18. News: Honorary Doctorates - Delft Outlook. Delft Outlook. 2017-05-12.
  19. Web site: Ehrungen und Preise an ETH-Angehörige 2014. www.ethz.ch. de. 2017-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20170926190903/https://www.ethz.ch/de/die-eth-zuerich/portraet/auszeichnungen/ehrungen-und-preise-an-eth-angehoerige-2014.html. 2017-09-26. dead.
  20. Web site: PhD Program in Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future. TU Delft. nl-NL. 2017-05-12.
  21. Helbing. Dirk. 1990-01-01. Physikalische Modellierung des dynamischen Verhaltens von Fußgängern (Physical Modeling of the Dynamic Behavior of Pedestrians). SSRN Electronic Journal. 2413177. 10.2139/ssrn.2413177.
  22. Book: Dirk., Helbing. Stochastische Methoden, nichtlineare Dynamik und quantitative Modelle sozialer Prozesse. 1996-01-01. Shaker. 9783861115472. 75838775.
  23. News: Sie verstehen zu überleben. Anhäuser. Marcus. 2010-05-19. sueddeutsche.de. 2017-05-12. de. 0174-4917.
  24. Helbing. Dirk. Treiber. Martin. 1998-12-11. Jams, Waves, and Clusters. Science. 282. 5396. 2001–2003. 10.1126/science.282.5396.2001. 60811443. 0036-8075.
  25. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. 2009. “Arbeitskreis ‘Physik Sozio-ökonomischer Systeme’ Gegründet.” http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/soe/historie/phbl.html
  26. 10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282 . Social force model for pedestrian dynamics . Physical Review E . 51 . 5 . 4282–4286 . 1995 . Helbing . Dirk . Molnár . Péter . 9963139 . 1995PhRvE..51.4282H . cond-mat/9805244 . 29333691 .
  27. 10.1038/25499 . Coherent moving states in highway traffic . Nature . 396 . 6713 . 738–740 . 1998 . Helbing . Dirk . Huberman . Bernardo A. . 1998Natur.396..738H . cond-mat/9805025 . 18430246 .
  28. 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00093-5 . Bacterial cooperative organization under antibiotic stress . Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications . 282 . 1–2 . 247–282 . 2000 . Ben-Jacob . Eshel . Cohen . Inon . Golding . Ido . Gutnick . David L. . Tcherpakov . Marianna . Helbing . Dirk . Ron . Ilan G. . 2000PhyA..282..247B .
  29. Farkas. I.. Helbing. D.. Vicsek. T.. Social behaviour: Mexican waves in an excitable medium. Nature. 419. 6903. 131–132. 10.1038/419131a. 2002. 2002Natur.419..131F. cond-mat/0210073. 12226653. 4309609.
  30. Web site: Mitarbeiter der Professur Ökonometrie und Statistik, insb. im Verkehrswesen. 2017-05-10. TU Dresden. de.
  31. 10.3141/1999-10 . General Lane-Changing Model MOBIL for Car-Following Models . Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . 1999 . 86–94 . 2007 . Kesting . Arne . Treiber . Martin . Helbing . Dirk . 39345746 .
  32. Book: 10.1007/978-3-540-47641-2_62 . Jam-Avoiding Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and its Impact on Traffic Dynamics . Traffic and Granular Flow'05 . 633–43 . 2007 . Kesting . Arne . Treiber . Martin . Schönhof . Martin . Kranke . Florian . Helbing . Dirk . 978-3-540-47640-5 . 17325754 .
  33. Book: 10.1007/978-3-642-32160-3_6 . Self-Organized Network Flows . Modelling and Optimisation of Flows on Networks . 2062 . 335–55 . Lecture Notes in Mathematics . 2013 . Helbing . Dirk . Siegmeier . Jan . Lämmer . Stefan . 978-3-642-32159-7 . physics/0702173 .
  34. Adaptive Traffic Lights Could Achieve 'The Green Wave'. News. Rachel Ehrenberg, Science. WIRED. 2017-05-12.
  35. News: Die revolutionäre Idee des Professors: Der Verkehr steuert die Ampeln. Haene. Stefan. 2012-05-14. Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger. 2017-05-12. de. 1422-9994.
  36. 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046109 . 17500963 . Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study . Physical Review E . 75 . 4 . 046109 . 2007 . Helbing . Dirk . Johansson . Anders . Al-Abideen . Habib Zein . 2007PhRvE..75d6109H . physics/0701203 . 21398961 .
  37. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000758 . 20454464 . Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions . PLOS Computational Biology . 6 . 4 . e1000758 . 2010 . Helbing . Dirk . Szolnoki . Attila . Perc . Matjaž . Szabó . György . 2010PLSCB...6E0758H . 2861625. 1003.3165 . free .
  38. 10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083005 . Punish, but not too hard: How costly punishment spreads in the spatial public goods game . New Journal of Physics . 12 . 8 . 083005 . 2010 . Helbing . Dirk . Szolnoki . Attila . Perc . Matjaž . Szabó . György . 2010NJPh...12h3005H . 1007.0431 . 9443807 .
  39. Book: 10.1007/978-3-642-24004-1_2 . Agent-Based Modeling . Social Self-Organization . limited . 25–70 . Understanding Complex Systems . 2012 . Helbing . Dirk . 978-3-642-24003-4 .
  40. Web site: Dirk Helbing Publications in Nature - Google Scholar. 2017-05-10. de.
  41. Web site: Dirk Helbing Publications in Science - Google Scholar. 2017-05-10. de.
  42. Web site: Dirk Helbing Publications in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Google Scholar. 2017-05-10. de.
  43. Web site: Golden Idea Award. 2017-05-10. www.inware.ch. de.
  44. Web site: Competence Center for "Coping with Crisis in Socio-Economic Systems". ETH. 2017-05-10. de.
  45. Web site: Risk Center Alumni. 2017-05-10. ETH. 2017-04-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170428011629/http://www.riskcenter.ethz.ch/people/risk-center-alumni.html. dead.
  46. Web site: Prof. Dirk Helbing. 2017-05-10.
  47. Web site: Decision Science Laboratory. 2017-05-10. ETH Zurich. de.
  48. News: Dr Seldon, I presume. The Economist. 2017-05-10. 2013-02-23. de.
  49. Helbing. Dirk. Globally networked risks and how to respond. Nature. 497. 7447. 51–59. 10.1038/nature12047. 23636396. 2013. 2013Natur.497...51H. 4428023.
  50. Helbing. Dirk. Pournaras. Evangelos. 2015-11-05. Society: Build digital democracy. Nature. 527. 7576. 33–34. 10.1038/527033a. 26536943. 2015Natur.527...33H. free.
  51. Web site: Offene Daten für eine smarte Gesellschaft. www.netzwoche.ch. 22 February 2017 . de. 2017-05-12.
  52. Web site: Modeling suggests crowds are best navigated around the edges Santa Fe Institute. 10 November 2011 . 2017-05-10.
  53. Web site: External Faculty. dead. 2017-05-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20170522173904/http://csh.ac.at/researchers/external_fellows.php. 2017-05-22. Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
  54. Web site: Members. 2017-05-10. The Global Brain Institute. de. 2019-08-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20190801123917/https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/. dead.
  55. Web site: Profile: Dirk Helbing. 2017-05-10. ICES Foundation. de.
  56. Web site: Blockchain: Use-Cases im öffentlichen Sektor. staatslabor.ch. 2017-05-10.
  57. Web site: Blockchain[X] – Platform for Business, Government and Academia to profit from Blockchain]. 2017-05-10.
  58. Web site: Blockchain Labs: Faculty Team. 2017-05-10.
  59. Web site: Auf dem Weg zur Blockchain-Gesellschaft. Burger. Stephanie. 2018-01-29. Mittelbayerische. de. 2018-04-14.
  60. Web site: Bund ernennt Big-Data-Gruppe - gegen seinen Willen. 27 August 2015 . 2017-05-03. de.
  61. Web site: Digitalisierte Gesellschaft. 2017-05-03. de.
  62. News: IT-Revolution: Digitale Demokratie statt Datendiktatur. 2018-05-18. de.
  63. Web site: Citizen Science Center Zurich - About. Citizen Science Center Zurich. 2018-04-14.
  64. Web site: Digitale Charta für Europa vorgestellt. www.netzwoche.ch. December 2016 . de. 2018-05-18.
  65. Web site: Dirk Helbing's Publons profile.
  66. News: The wisdom of crowds. 2011-12-17. The Economist. 2017-05-12. 0013-0613.
  67. News: How Fluid Dynamics Can Help You Navigate Crowds. Smithsonian. 2017-05-12.
  68. The Hajj Stampede Is a Fluid Dynamics Problem. Rogers. Adam. WIRED. 2017-05-12.
  69. News: Making Mecca Safe for Pilgrims: Panic Specialists Bring Order to the Hajj - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International. Germany. SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. Der Spiegel. 25 October 2007 . 2017-05-12.
  70. Helbing . Dirk . Molnár . Péter . Social force model for pedestrian dynamics . Physical Review E . 51 . 5 . 4282 - 4286 . 1995 . 10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282 . 9963139 . cond-mat/9805244 . 1995PhRvE..51.4282H . 29333691 .
  71. Helbing . Dirk . Molnár . Péter . Farkas. Illés J . Bolay . Kai . Self-organizing pedestrian movement . Environment and Planning B . 28 . 3 . 361 - 383 . 2001. 10.1068/b2697 . 16276539 .
  72. Helbing . Dirk . Farkas . Illés . Vicsek . Tamás . Tamás Vicsek. Simulating dynamical features of escape panic . Nature . 407 . 487 - 490 . 2000 . 10.1038/35035023 . 11028994 . 6803 . cond-mat/0009448 . 2000Natur.407..487H . 310346 .
  73. Helbing . Dirk . Buzna . Lubos . Johansson . Anders . Werner . Torsten . Self-organized pedestrian crowd dynamics: Experiments, simulations, and design solutions . Transportation Science . 39 . 1 . 1 - 24 . 2005 . 10.1287/trsc.1040.0108 .
  74. News: When slower is faster. Dizikes. Peter. March 17, 2016. MIT News. 2017-05-12.
  75. Helbing . Dirk . Farkas . Illés J . Vicsek . Tamás . Tamás Vicsek. Werner . Torsten . Freezing by heating in a driven mesoscopic system . Physical Review Letters . 84 . 6 . 1240 - 1243 . 2000 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1240 . 2000PhRvL..84.1240H. cond-mat/9904326 . 11017488. 18649078 .
  76. Helbing . Dirk . Treiber . Martin . Gas-kinetic-based traffic model explaining observed hysteretic phase transition . Physical Review Letters . 81 . 14 . 3042 - 3045 . 1998 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3042 . 1998PhRvL..81.3042H. cond-mat/9810277 . 119045169 .
  77. Helbing . Dirk . Treiber . Martin . Derivation of a fundamental diagram for urban traffic flow . European Physical Journal B . 70 . 2 . 229 - 241 . 2008 . 10.1140/epjb/e2009-00093-7 . 2009EPJB...70..229H . 0807.1843 . 18557947 .
  78. News: The Physics of Gridlock. Budiansky. Stephen. The Atlantic. 2017-05-12.
  79. http://www.soms.ethz.ch/research/pairinteractions.pdf A mathematical model for behavioral changes by pair interactions
  80. A mathematical model for the behavior of individuals in a social field . D. Helbing . 1994 . Journal of Mathematical Sociology . 19 . 3. 189–219 . 10.1080/0022250x.1994.9990143. cond-mat/9805194 . 18777712 .
  81. Helbing . Dirk . Lämmler . Stefan . Self-control of traffic lights and vehicle flows in urban road networks . Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. P04019 . 2008 . 4 . 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/P04019 . 2008 . 2008JSMTE..04..019L . 0802.0403 . 2787848 .
  82. Helbing . Dirk . Kesting . Arne . Treiber . Martin . Schönhof . Martin . Adaptive cruise control design for active congestion avoidance . Transportation Research C . 16 . 6 . 668 - 683 . 2008 . 10.1016/j.trc.2007.12.004 .
  83. Helbing . Dirk . Yu . Wenjian . The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 106 . 3680 - 3685. 2009 . 10.1073/pnas.0811503106 . 19237576 . 10 . 2646628 . 2009PNAS..106.3680H . 0903.4054 . free .
  84. 2014-01-01. Quality collectives : evolving socio-technical systems to support quality. QLectives Working Paper. 1. Gilbert. Nigel. Xenitidou. Maria. Helbing. Dirk. Jelasity. M.. Medo. M.. Pouwelse. J.. Roth. C.. Ziembowicz. M.. Zistler. A..
  85. News: Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?. Zwitter. Dirk Helbing, Bruno S. Frey, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ernst Hafen, Michael Hagner, Yvonne Hofstetter, Jeroen van den Hoven, Roberto V. Zicari, Andrej. Scientific American. 2017-05-12.
  86. Helbing . Dirk . Simonsen . Ingve . Buzna . Lubos . Peters . Karsten . Bornholdt . Stefan . Transient dynamics increasing network vulnerability to cascading failures . Physical Review Letters . 100 . 21 . 1 - 4 . 2008 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.218701 . 2008PhRvL.100u8701S . 18518644. 0704.1952 . 18218779 .
  87. News: Word Of The Day: Hyper-Risk. Frank. Adam. NPR.org. 2017-05-12.
  88. Helbing . Dirk . Peters . Karsten . Buzna . Lubos . Ammoser . Hendrik . Kühnert . Christian . Efficient response to cascading disaster spreading . Physical Review E . 75 . 5 . 056107 . 2007 . 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.056107 . 17677133 . physics/0611244 . 2007PhRvE..75e6107B . 6221342 .
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  90. Web site: Breakout Session 5: Frontiers in Social Science. DARPA. 23 June 2016. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 15 June 2017.
  91. Web site: FLAG-ERA JTC 2016 Project Kick-off Seminar. 28 April 2017. FLAG-ERA. 15 June 2017.
  92. Helbing. Dirk. 1996-03-01. A stochastic behavioral model and a 'Microscopic' foundation of evolutionary game theory. Theory and Decision. 40. 2. 149–179. 10.1007/BF00133171. 0040-5833. cond-mat/9805340. 14185669.
  93. Book: Haag G, Mueller U, and Troitzsch K G.. Economic Evolution and Demographic Change. Springer. 1992. 978-3-642-48808-5. Berlin.
  94. Kesting. Arne. Treiber. Martin. Helbing. Dirk. 2010-10-13. Enhanced intelligent driver model to access the impact of driving strategies on traffic capacity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 368. 1928. 4585–4605. 10.1098/rsta.2010.0084. 1364-503X. 20819823. 2010RSPTA.368.4585K. 0912.3613. 1769577.
  95. Method for coordination of concurrent processes for control of the transport of mobile units within a network. Jan 25, 2007. Helbing. Laemmer. Dirk. Stefan. WO. 2006122528.
  96. Lämmer. Stefan. Helbing. Dirk. 2008. Self-control of traffic lights and vehicle flows in urban road networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment. 2008. 4. P04019. 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/04/P04019. 1742-5468. 2008JSMTE..04..019L. 0802.0403. 2787848.
  97. Book: 10.1002/9783527610006.ch19 . Self-organization Principles in Supply Networks and Production Systems . Econophysics and Sociophysics . 535–59 . 2006 . Helbing . Dirk . Seidel . Thomas . Lmmer . Stefan . Peters . Karsten . 9783527610006 .
  98. Helbing. Dirk. Molnár. Péter. 1995-05-01. Social force model for pedestrian dynamics. Physical Review E. 51. 5. 4282–4286. 10.1103/PhysRevE.51.4282. 9963139. 1995PhRvE..51.4282H. cond-mat/9805244. 29333691.
  99. Helbing. Dirk. Johansson. Anders. Al-Abideen. Habib Zein. 2007-04-18. Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study. Physical Review E. 75. 4. 046109. 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046109. 2007PhRvE..75d6109H. physics/0701203. 17500963. 21398961.
  100. Bhavnani. Ravi. Donnay. Karsten. Miodownik. Dan. Mor. Maayan. Helbing. Dirk. 2014-01-01. Group Segregation and Urban Violence. American Journal of Political Science. 58. 1. 226–245. 10.1111/ajps.12045. 1540-5907.
  101. Helbing. Dirk. Brockmann. Dirk. Chadefaux. Thomas. Donnay. Karsten. Blanke. Ulf. Woolley-Meza. Olivia. Moussaid. Mehdi. Johansson. Anders. Krause. Jens. 2015-02-01. Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute. Journal of Statistical Physics. 158. 3. 735–781. 10.1007/s10955-014-1024-9. 0022-4715. 4457089. 26074625. 2015JSP...158..735H. 1402.7011.
  102. Interaction Support Processor. 2015-08-14. Helbing. Dirk. WO. 2015118455.
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