Model of World; her cities, languages and countries Export

@misc{citeulike:1769684, abstract = {The time evolution of Earth with her cities, languages and countries is considered in terms of the multiplicative noise and the fragmentation- processes, where the related families, size distributions, lifetimes, bilinguals, etc. are studied. Earlier we treated the cities and the languages differently (and as connected; languages split since cities split, etc.). Hence, two dis- tributions are obtained in the same computation at the same time. The same approach is followed here and Pareto-Zipf law for the distribution of the cities, log-normal for the languages, decreasing exponential for the city families (countries) in the rank order over population, and power law -2 for the language families over the number of languages in rank order are obtained theoretically in this combination for the first time (up to our knowledge) in the literature; all of which are in good agreement with the present empirical data.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Tuncay, Caglar}, citeulike-article-id = {1769684}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2023}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0710.2023}, day = {10}, eprint = {0710.2023}, keywords = {city, model, social}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2008-07-28 12:03:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Model of World; her cities, languages and countries}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2023}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1769684 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1769684 N2 - The time evolution of Earth with her cities, languages and countries is considered in terms of the multiplicative noise and the fragmentation- processes, where the related families, size distributions, lifetimes, bilinguals, etc. are studied. Earlier we treated the cities and the languages differently (and as connected; languages split since cities split, etc.). Hence, two dis- tributions are obtained in the same computation at the same time. The same approach is followed here and Pareto-Zipf law for the distribution of the cities, log-normal for the languages, decreasing exponential for the city families (countries) in the rank order over population, and power law -2 for the language families over the number of languages in rank order are obtained theoretically in this combination for the first time (up to our knowledge) in the literature; all of which are in good agreement with the present empirical data. TI - Model of World; her cities, languages and countries KW - city KW - model KW - social AU - Tuncay, Caglar PY - 2007/Oct/10/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2023 ER -