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This book is concerned with the various aspects of hierarchical collective behaviour, which is manifested by most complex systems in nature. From the many possible topics, we plan to present a selection of those that we think are useful in regard to shedding light onto our quite general subject from a number of very different directions.
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Zafeiris, A., Vicsek, T. (2018). Introduction. In: Why We Live in Hierarchies?. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70483-8_1
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