Download or read book Stochastic Interacting Systems in Life and Social Sciences written by Nicolas Lanchier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of two of the most important examples of interacting particle systems, the contact process, and the voter model, as well as their many variants introduced in the past 50 years. These stochastic processes are organized by domains of application (epidemiology, population dynamics, ecology, genetics, sociology, econophysics, game theory) along with a flavor of the mathematical techniques developed for their analysis.