Research
COMPLEXITY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY
Dr. Rene C. Batac aims to describe the emergence of complex behavior across a broad range of representative systems by looking at their temporal and spatial or structural properties. His earliest works are on landslides and earthquakes, examples of large-scale self-organized systems in nature, but it has since expanded to scaled laboratory experiments, discrete models and simulations. He is also interested in complex signatures of human interactions as manifested in socio-economic activities and spatially in urban systems. He heads a working group on Complex Systems composed of students from the De La Salle University - Manila.
Complexity in Nature and in the Lab: Granular materials experiments and simulations, Self-organized criticality, Earthquakes, Landslides and avalanches, Discrete models. Learn more >
Complex Systems in Society: Human interactions, Complex networks, Agent-based models, Discrete models, Game theory, Financial time series, Econophysics. Learn more >
Urban Studies: Growth and development, Data mining, Geographical information systems (GIS), Spatial metrics. Learn more >
Recent Publications
P.B. Sy and R.C. Batac, The role of intervention mechanisms on a self-organized system: Dynamics of a sandpile with site reinforcement, Journal of Physics: Complexity, 5, 015012, DOI:10.1088/2632-072X/ad28ff (2024).
J.M.V. Antenorcruz and R.C. Batac, Efficiency of a self-organizing Ising model of financial markets, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 35(01), 2450013, DOI:10.1142/S012918312450013X (2023).
M.T. Cirunay and R.C. Batac, Evolution of the periphery of a self-organized road network, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 617, 128629, DOI:10.1016/j.physica.2023.128629 (2023).
M.T. Cirunay and R.C. Batac, Morphological and Fractal Characteristics of City Road Networks from Philippine Metropolitan Regions, Journal of Regional and City Planning 33(3), 386-404, DOI: 10.5614/jpwk.2022.33.3.6 (2022).
R.C. Batac and M.T. Cirunay, Shortest paths along urban road network peripheries, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 597, 127255, DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2022.127255 (2022).
D.M.T. Ordoñez and R.C. Batac, Cascade events in geographical space, International Journal of Modern Physics C, 33(4), 2250050, DOI:10.1142/S0129183122500504 (2022).