Essays:

• Google as God? Opportunities and Risks of the Information Age. arXiv.org
• Genie out of the bottle: The digital revolution on its way. FuturICT.blogspot.ch
• Der Geist ist aus der Flasche. TAZ.de
• A New Kind of Economy is Born. TodayOnline.com

Find further Essays here

Relevant publication:

• R. Bhavnani , K. Donnay, D. Miodownik, M. Mor, and D. Helbing (2013) Group Segregation and Urban Violence. American Journal of Political Science.

D. Helbing and P. Mukerji (2012) Crowd disasters as systemic failures: Analysis of the Love Parade Disaster. EPJ Data Science 2012 1:7. See also preprint.

Links to complementary videos can be found here.

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1. M. Moussaïd, D. Helbing, and G. Theraulaz (2011) How simple rules determine pedestrian behavior and crowd disasters. PNAS 108 (17) 6884-6888.
2. A. Johansson, D. Helbing, H. Z. A-Abideen, andS. Al-Bosta (2008) From crowd dynamics to crowd safety: A video-based analysis. Advances in Complex Systems 11(4), 497-527.
3. D. Helbing, A. Johansson, and H. Z. Al-Abideen (2007)The dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study. Physical Review E 75, 046109. See this link for a complementary webpage on how the Hajj was made safer.
4. D. Helbing, I. Farkas, and T. Vicsek (2000) Simulating dynamical features of escape panic. Nature 407, 487-490.
5. D. Helbing, A. Johansson (2010) Pedestrian, Crowd and Evacuation Dynamics. Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science 16, 6476-6495.
6. D. Helbing and A. Johansson (2010) Cooperation, norms, and revolutions: A unified game-theoretical approach. PLoS ONE 5(10), e12530.
7. D. Helbing, H. Ammoser, and C. Kühnert (2005) Disasters as extreme events and the importance of network interactions for disaster response management. Pages 319-348. in: S. Albeverio, V. Jentsch, and H. Kantz (eds.) Extreme Events in Nature and Society (Springer, Berlin).
8. K. Peters, L. Buzna, and D. Helbing (2008) Modelling of cascading effects and efficient response to disaster spreading in complex networks. Int. J. Critical Infrastructures 4(1/2), 46-62.
9. D. Helbing (2010) Systemic Risks in Society and Economics. International Risk Governance Council (irgc).

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• International Workshop on «Agent-Based Models and Complex Techno-Social Systems» July 2-4, 2012, ETH Zurich

• News mining might have predicted Arab Spring
• Signs of impending social and political change may lie hidden in a sea of news reports.
  Nature
  

• Wenn die Masse zur Bedrohung wird (in German, Automatic English Translation)
• Nicht erst seit dem Unglück bei der Loveparade in Duisburg erforschen Wissenschaftler das Risikopotenzial großer Menschenmassen. Neue Simulationen sollen den gefürchteten Crowd Quake jetzt realistischer simulieren.
  Handelsblatt
  

• Rechenmodelle sollen Katastrophen vorhersagen (in German, Automatic English Translation)
  Spiegel Online
  

• Are scientific reputations boosted artificially?
• Reputations emerge in a collective manner. But does this guarantee that fame rests on merit, asks Philip Ball.
  Nature
  

• Predicting crowd behaviour
  PhysicsWorld.com
  

• What Causes Deadly 'Crowd-Quakes'?
  Science
  

• Wenjian Yu winssecond prize in Fifth "ChunhuiCup"Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest (in Chinese, Automatic English Translation)

• Physik der Finanzmärkte (in German, Automatic English translation).

• Social Network Predicts Flu Spread

• Panikforschung: Selbst Mekka ist beherrschbar (in German, Automatic English translation).

• Who should pay for the police?

• Towards a socio-economic knowledge accelerator.

• Publication on "The outbreak of cooperation among success-driven individuals under noisy conditions".

• ETH Risk Center Workshop «Vulnerability and Resilience of Supply Chains» September 12-13, 2013, ETH Zurich

• Interdisciplinary Seminar «Modeling Complex Socio-Economic Systems and Crises»
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• ETH Risk Center workshop: «New views on extreme events: Coupled Networks, Dragon Kings and Explosive Percolation» Oct 25-26, 2012, ETH Zurich

• Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems «Dynamic Networks and Social Behavior» July 6-13, 2013, Lipari Island
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• Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems «Data mining and modeling of complex techno-socio-economic systems» May 14, 2012, Lipari Island
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• Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems «Game Theoretic Approach to Computational Complex Systems»July 9-16, 2011, Lipari Island

• International Workshop on «Game Theory and Society: Models of Social Interaction in Sociological Research 2011»July 27-30, 2011, ETH Zurich

• International Workshop on «Challenges and Visions in Social Sciences 2008»
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