Matjaž Perc Explained

Matjaž Perc
Birth Place:Maribor, Slovenia
Nationality:Slovene
Field:Statistical Physics, Complex Systems, Network Science, Evolutionary Game Theory
Work Institution:University of Maribor
Alma Mater:University of Maribor
Website:www.matjazperc.com
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Matjaž Perc is Professor of Physics at the University of Maribor in Slovenia, and director of the Complex Systems Center Maribor. He is member of Academia Europaea[1] and among top 1% most cited physicists according to Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers.[2] He is Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical Review Letters journals,[3] and Distinguished Referee of EPL.[4] He received the Young Scientist Award for Socio-and Econophysics in 2015.[5] His research has been widely reported in the media and professional literature.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

Biography

Matjaž Perc studied physics at the University of Maribor. He completed his doctoral thesis on noise-induced pattern formation in spatially extended systems with applications to the nervous system, game-theoretical models, and social complexity. In 2009 he received the Zois Certificate of Recognition for outstanding research achievements in theoretical physics.[17] [18] In 2010 he became head of the Institute of Physics at the University of Maribor, and in 2011 he became full Professor of Physics. In 2015, Matjaž Perc established the Complex Systems Center Maribor.[19] His research on complex systems covers evolutionary game theory, agent-based modeling, data analysis, and network science.

Research

Matjaž Perc is an expert on the theory of cooperation on networks.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] He has applied Monte Carlo simulations and dynamical mean field theory to discover that stochastic perturbations resolve social dilemmas in a resonance-like manner.[31] [32] He has also pioneered self-organization as a way of stabilizing reward and punishment in structured populations,[33] [34] and he has proposed the introduction of discrete strategies in ultimatum games,[35] [36] which has contributed to the understanding of the fascinating complexity behind human bargaining. His research has helped to reveal the full potential of methods of non-equilibrium statistical physics in evolutionary game theory.[37]

He has done research on the evolution of moral and double moral standards,[38] the evolution of the most common English words and phrases,[39] and the rise and fall of new words.[40] He has discovered self-organization in the way how major scientific ideas propagate across the physics literature,[41] which culminated in a simple mathematical regularity that is able to identify scientific memes.[42]

In addition to his various original contributions, Matjaž Perc has provided the research community with several reviews and introductory articles on evolutionary games,[43] [44] [45] [46] the emergence of organized crime,[47] collective phenomena in socio-economic systems,[48] [49] energy-saving mechanisms in nature,[50] and the Matthew effect.[51] By the number of citations, he is the most cited author of several physics journals including New Journal of Physics, Biosystems, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Physical Review E.[52]

Awards

Publications

For a full list see Matjaž Perc's ORCID page.

Editorial work

Matjaž Perc is editorial board member at Physical Review E, New Journal of Physics, EPL, European Physical Journal B, Advances in Complex Systems, Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Physics, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Royal Society Open Science, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, and Applied Mathematics and Computation. He was also guest editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.[53]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Perc_Matjaž Matjaž Perc at Academia Europaea
  2. http://hcr.stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com/sites/default/files/content/hcr/archive/2014_HCR_as_of_September_8_2015.xlsx Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers
  3. http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20120318024701/http%3A//publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees APS Outstanding Referees Program
  4. http://www.epletters.net/referees/distinguished-referees/ Distinguished EPL Referees
  5. http://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/gliederung/fv/soe/YSA/index.html Awardees of the Young Scientist Award for Socio-and Econophysics
  6. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.351 Who should pay for the police?
  7. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22101 Tracking the most popular words in written English
  8. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/508611/the-evolution-of-english-words-and-phrases-since-1520/ The Evolution of English Words and Phrases Since 1520
  9. http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicists-explore-rise-and-fall-words/892 Physicists Explore The Rise And Fall Of Words
  10. https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/02/10/when-physicists-linguistics/ZoHNxhE6uunmM7976nWsRP/story.html When physicists do linguistics
  11. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/12/28/fewer-bromances-or-taycations-than-friends-and-trips-researchers-say/ Fewer 'bromances' or 'staycations' than friends and trips, Google shows
  12. http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/02/brave-new-word-kuhn-meme A brave new word
  13. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.7128;jsessionid=6ldh0tahjs3ek.x-aip-live-03 The cost and benefit of deception
  14. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/influence-influence-prisoner%E2%80%99s-dilemma The influence of influence in Prisoner’s Dilemma
  15. https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/Physics.7.118 Measuring the Spread of Ideas through the Physical Review
  16. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys3884 Tolerate thy neighbour
  17. [:sl:Zoisovo priznanje|Awardees of the Zois Certificate of Recognition]
  18. http://www.delo.si/clanek/93335 Podelili Zoisove nagrade in priznanja
  19. http://complex.um.si Complex Systems Center Maribor
  20. Double resonance in cooperation induced by noise and network variation for an evolutionary prisoner's dilemma. New Journal of Physics. 8. 9. 183. 10.1088/1367-2630/8/9/183. 2006. Perc. Matjaž. 2006NJPh....8..183P. free. 20.500.12556/DKUM-35958. free.
  21. Making new connections towards cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma game. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 84. 5. 50007. 10.1209/0295-5075/84/50007. 2008. Szolnoki. A.. Perc. M.. Danku. Z.. 0811.4372. 2008EL.....8450007S. 14717196.
  22. Restricted connections among distinguished players support cooperation. Physical Review E. 78. 6. 066101. 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.066101. 19256899. 2008. Perc. Matjaž. Szolnoki. Attila. Szabó. György. 0811.3090. 2008PhRvE..78f6101P. 17212325.
  23. Evolution of cooperation on scale-free networks subject to error and attack. New Journal of Physics. 11. 3. 033027. 10.1088/1367-2630/11/3/033027. 2009. Perc. Matjaž. 2009NJPh...11c3027P. 0902.4661. 13642594.
  24. Resolving social dilemmas on evolving random networks. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 86. 3. 30007. 10.1209/0295-5075/86/30007. 2009. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. 2009EL.....8630007S. 0910.1905. 14670028.
  25. Evolution of public cooperation on interdependent networks: The impact of biased utility functions. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 97. 4. 48001. 10.1209/0295-5075/97/48001. 2012. Wang. Zhen. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. 2012EL.....9748001W. 1201.1900. 4520167.
  26. Interdependent network reciprocity in evolutionary games. Scientific Reports. 3. 1183. 10.1038/srep01183. 23378915. 3560361. 2013. Wang. Zhen. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. 2013NatSR...3E1183W. 1308.1947.
  27. Evolution of emotions on networks leads to the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas. Physical Review E. 87. 4. 042805. 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042805. 23679471. 2013. Szolnoki. Attila. Xie. Neng-Gang. Ye. Ye. Perc. Matjaž. 2013PhRvE..87d2805S. 1303.7225. 1028262.
  28. Self-organization towards optimally interdependent networks by means of coevolution. New Journal of Physics. 16. 3. 033041. 10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/033041. 2014. Wang. Zhen. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. 2014NJPh...16c3041W. 1404.2923. 4521294.
  29. Degree mixing in multilayer networks impedes the evolution of cooperation. Physical Review E. 89. 5. 052813. 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052813. 25353850. 2014. Wang. Zhen. Wang. Lin. Perc. Matjaž. 2014PhRvE..89e2813W. 1406.1784. 1993680.
  30. Defection and extortion as unexpected catalysts of unconditional cooperation in structured populations. Scientific Reports. 4. 5496. 10.1038/srep05496. 24975112. 4074784. 2015. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž.
  31. Coherence resonance in a spatial prisoner's dilemma game. New Journal of Physics. 8. 2. 22. 10.1088/1367-2630/8/2/022. 2006. Perc. Matjaž. 2006NJPh....8...22P. free.
  32. Evolutionary and dynamical coherence resonances in the pair approximated prisoner's dilemma game. New Journal of Physics. 8. 8. 142. 10.1088/1367-2630/8/8/142. 2006. Perc. Matjaž. Marhl. Marko. 2006NJPh....8..142P. free. 20.500.12556/DKUM-35956. free.
  33. Self-organization of punishment in structured populations. New Journal of Physics. 14. 4. 043013. 10.1088/1367-2630/14/4/043013. 2012. Perc. Matjaž. Szolnoki. Attila. 2012NJPh...14d3013P. 1203.6900. 9651762.
  34. Evolutionary advantages of adaptive rewarding. New Journal of Physics. 14. 9. 093016. 10.1088/1367-2630/14/9/093016. 2012. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. 2012NJPh...14i3016S. 1208.3457. 2472543.
  35. Defense mechanisms of empathetic players in the spatial ultimatum game. Physical Review Letters. 109. 7. 078701. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.078701. 23006406. 2012. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. Szabó. György. 1207.4786. 2012PhRvL.109g8701S. 130132.
  36. Accuracy in strategy imitations promotes the evolution of fairness in the spatial ultimatum game. EPL (Europhysics Letters). 100. 2. 28005. 10.1209/0295-5075/100/28005. 2012. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. Szabó. György. 2012EL....10028005S. 1211.1964. 11113946.
  37. Phase transitions in models of human cooperation. Physics Letters A. 380. 36. 2803–2808. 10.1016/j.physleta.2016.06.017. 2016. Perc. Matjaž. 2016PhLA..380.2803P.
  38. Evolutionary Establishment of Moral and Double Moral Standards through Spatial Interactions. PLOS Computational Biology. 6. 4. e1000758. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000758. 20454464. 2861625. 2010. Helbing. Dirk. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. Szabó. György. 2010PLSCB...6E0758H. 1003.3165 . free .
  39. Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 9. 77. 3323–3328. 10.1098/rsif.2012.0491. 22832364. 3481586. 2012. Perc. M.. 2012arXiv1212.1709P. 1212.1709.
  40. Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words. Scientific Reports. 2. 943. 10.1038/srep00943. 23230508. 3517984. 2012. Petersen. Alexander M.. Tenenbaum. Joel N.. Havlin. Shlomo. Stanley. H. Eugene. Perc. Matjaž. 2012NatSR...2E.943P. 1212.2616.
  41. Self-organization of progress across the century of physics. Scientific Reports. 3. 1720. 10.1038/srep01720. 3634109. 2013. Perc. Matjaž. 2013NatSR...3E1720P. 1305.0552. 2364911.
  42. Inheritance Patterns in Citation Networks Reveal Scientific Memes. Physical Review X. 4. 4. 041036. 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041036. 2014. Kuhn. Tobias. Perc. Matjaž. Helbing. Dirk. 2014PhRvX...4d1036K. 1404.3757. 14810454.
  43. Coevolutionary games - A mini review. Biosystems. 99. 2. 109–125. 10.1016/j.biosystems.2009.10.003. 19837129. 2010. Perc. Matjaž. Szolnoki. Attila. 0910.0826. 8313629.
  44. Evolutionary dynamics of group interactions on structured populations: A review. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 10. 80. 20120997. 10.1098/rsif.2012.0997. 23303223. 3565747. 2013. Perc. M.. Gomez-Gardenes. J.. Szolnoki. A.. Floria. L. M.. Moreno. Y.. 2013arXiv1301.2247P. 1301.2247.
  45. Cyclic dominance in evolutionary games: A review. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 11. 100. 20140735. 10.1098/rsif.2014.0735. 25232048. 4191105. 2014. Szolnoki. A.. Mobilia. M.. Jiang. L.-L.. Szczesny. B.. Rucklidge. A. M.. Perc. M.. 2014arXiv1408.6828S. 1408.6828.
  46. Evolutionary games on multilayer networks: A colloquium. The European Physical Journal B. 88. 5. 124. 10.1140/epjb/e2015-60270-7. 2015. Wang. Zhen. Wang. Lin. Szolnoki. Attila. Perc. Matjaž. 2015EPJB...88..124W. 1504.04359. 4525398.
  47. Statistical physics of crime: A review. Physics of Life Reviews. 12. 1–21. 10.1016/j.plrev.2014.11.001. 25468514. 2015. d'Orsogna. Maria R.. Perc. Matjaž. 2158/1087565. 2015PhLRv..12....1D. 1411.1743. 12122055.
  48. 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. 26074625. 4457089. 2015. Helbing. Dirk. Brockmann. Dirk. Chadefaux. Thomas. Donnay. Karsten. Blanke. Ulf. Woolley-Meza. Olivia. Moussaid. Mehdi. Johansson. Anders. Krause. Jens. Schutte. Sebastian. Perc. Matjaž. 2015JSP...158..735H. 1402.7011.
  49. Collective behavior and evolutionary games - An introduction. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 56. 1–5. 10.1016/j.chaos.2013.06.002. 2013. Perc. Matjaž. Grigolini. Paolo. 2013CSF....56....1P. 1306.2296. 7571668.
  50. Energy saving mechanisms, collective behavior and the variation range hypothesis in biological systems: A review. Biosystems. 147. 40–66. 10.1016/j.biosystems.2016.05.010. 27288936. 2016. Trenchard. Hugh. Perc. Matjaž. 1606.08969. 2016arXiv160608969T. 7160348.
  51. The Matthew effect in empirical data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 11. 98. 20140378. 10.1098/rsif.2014.0378. 24990288. 4233686. 2014. Perc. M.. 2014arXiv1408.5124P. 1408.5124.
  52. Web site: M. Perc citation rankings . Exaly . 2022-06-07.
  53. The spreading of misinformation online. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113. 3. 554–559. 10.1073/pnas.1517441113. 26729863. 4725489. 2016. Del Vicario. Michela. Bessi. Alessandro. Zollo. Fabiana. Petroni. Fabio. Scala. Antonio. Caldarelli. Guido. Stanley. H. Eugene. Quattrociocchi. Walter. 2016PNAS..113..554D. free.

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