Editorial: The social sciences.

Editorial: Statistical Mechanics and Social Sciences

Statistical physics has proven fruitful for the investigation of the collective dynamics of complex systems, including systems that lie beyond the scope of traditional physics. By leveraging behavioral regularities at the global level, such as averages and distributions, statistical physics can be used to analyze systems with large numbers of components whose individual behavior is highly idios...

Editorial: Affective Sciences through the Chemical Senses

1 Translational Neurocircuitry Group, Max Planck for Metabolism Research, Cologne, Germany, 2 Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland, 3 Laboratory for the Study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Neuroscience Area, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, Monell Chemical Senses C...

Analytical Sciences Editorial Board Members - Biographies.

Concepts in the Social Sciences

Complexity and the Social Sciences:

The application of complexity theory crosses many domains thereby reflecting the multidisciplinary perspective inherent within the concept. Within the social sciences, the advent of complexity theory has facilitated a re-examination of the concept of system, ‘...rejecting old assumptions about equilibrium in favour of the analysis of dynamic processes of systems far from equilibrium, and respec...