• Title of article

    Power-law distribution in a learning process: competition, learning and natural selection

  • Author/Authors

    Hari M. Gupta، نويسنده , , José R. Campanha، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    267
  • To page
    274
  • Abstract
    In the present work, we propose a model for the statistical distribution of people versus number of steps acquired by them in a learning process, based on competition, learning and natural selection. We consider that learning ability is normally distributed. We found that the number of people versus step acquired by them in a learning process is given through a power law. As competition, learning and selection is also at the core of all economical and social systems, we consider that power-law scaling is a quantitative description of this process in social systems. This gives an alternative thinking in holistic properties of complex systems
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Record number

    869825