Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Theory and concepts -- Understanding online group purchasing behavior / Giuliana Isabella and Suzi Elen Ferreira Dias, University of Sao Paulo and Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, Brazil -- Modeling social interactions in game play / Jason Gordon, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, USA -- Leisure phenomenon as a complex system : exploring its potential for a dynamical approach / Gabriela Baranowski Pinto, Federal Agency for the Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, CAPES, Brazilian Government, Brazil -- Stochastic resonation, paramagnetism and emotional contagion in collective behaviours / Alan McDonnell, Emergent Dynamic Technologies Ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom -- Mathematical modeling and simulations -- Analysis of behavior stability in a multiagent system / Florin Leon, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Romania -- Collective behavior of active particles / Olga V. Yushchenko, Nanolectronics Department, Sumy State University, Ukraine -- Considerations on the set model of swarm behavior in the case of very large swarms / T. D. Frank, Department of Psychology and Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, USA -- Collective behavior in adaptive systems : application to prism adaptation / T. D. Frank, Department of Psychology and Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, USA -- The lotka-volterra-haken model for group buying, apples-to-apples group play and the competition and attraction of leisure activities / T. D. Frank, Department of Psychology and Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, USA -- Index.

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