Berlin 2005 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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SYBN: Biological and Social Networks

SYBN 3: Biologische und Soziale Netzwerke, Postersitzung

SYBN 3.32: Poster

Montag, 7. März 2005, 14:00–15:30, Poster TU E

On thermodynamics of socio-economics networks — •Jürgen Mimkes — Physics Department,, Paderborn University

Data for traffic offenses indicate that social behaviour and misbehaviour is governed by the LeChatelier principle of least pressure. This principle corresponds to the Gibbs free energy of thermodynamics. Social networks correspond to the crystal structure of atomic systems, however, well organized societies have many different networks for water, food, waste, communication, energy, traffic etc. In homogeneous social systems we observe three phases: collective, inflexible structures, flexible nets and free individual systems. In traffic we find fixed railroad systems, flexible buses and individual cars, in air traffic we have air lines, charter and private planes. In communications we have fixed telephone networks, flexible mobile nets and independent walki talkies. For energy we have the fixed electricity net, flexible local nets and individual generators or batteries. Like in atomic systems the state of a society and its networks depends on two parameters, social pressure p and social temperature or standard of living T. The network with the lowest free energy (costs) is observed.