Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-10-21
Phys. Rev. Lett 104, 040603 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.040603
The distribution of information is essential for living system's ability to coordinate and adapt. Random walkers are often used to model this distribution process and, in doing so, one effectively assumes that information maintains its relevance over time. But the value of information in social and biological systems often decay and must continuously be updated. To capture the spatial dynamics of ageing information, we introduce time walkers. A time walker moves like a random walker, but interacts with traces left by other walkers, some representing older information, some newer. The traces forms a navigable information landscape. We quantify the dynamical properties of time walkers moving on a two-dimensional lattice and the quality of the information landscape generated by their movements. We visualise the self-similar landscape as a river network, and show that searching in this landscape is superior to random searching and scales as the length of loop-erased random walks.
Lizana Ludvig
Rosvall Martin
Sneppen Kim
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