Department of Engineering, University of Messina, C.da Di Dio, (S. Agata) 98166 Messina, Italy.
School of management and business King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, SW1 9NH, London, UK.
Phys Life Rev. 2017 Dec;22-23:1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2017.06.026. Epub 2017 Jun 29.
The complex interactions between human behaviors and social economic sciences is critically analyzed in this paper in view of possible applications of mathematical modeling as an attainable interdisciplinary approach to understand and simulate the aforementioned dynamics. The quest is developed along three steps: Firstly an overall analysis of social and economic sciences indicates the main requirements that a contribution of mathematical modeling should bring to these sciences; subsequently the focus moves to an overview of mathematical tools and to the selection of those which appear, according to the authors bias, appropriate to the modeling; finally, a survey of applications is presented looking ahead to research perspectives.
本文批判性地分析了人类行为与社会经济学之间的复杂相互作用,鉴于数学建模作为一种可行的跨学科方法来理解和模拟上述动态的可能应用。研究工作分三个步骤进行:首先,对社会经济学进行全面分析,指出数学建模的贡献应该给这些科学带来的主要要求;其次,重点转向数学工具概述,并根据作者的偏见选择那些似乎适合建模的工具;最后,前瞻性地展示应用调查,展望研究前景。