Zipf’s Law: Balancing Signal Usage Cost and Communication Efficiency

Zipf's law, power laws and maximum entropy

(2013) Matt Visser   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

The Evolution of the Exponent of Zipf's Law in Language Ontogeny

(2013) Jaume Baixeries et al.   PLoS One

Analysis of an information-theoretic model for communication

(2012) Ronald Dickman et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Zipf's law unzipped

(2011) Seung Ki Baek et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Relating Fisher information to order parameters

(2011) Mikhail Prokopenko et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Phase transitions in least-effort communications

(2010) Mikhail Prokopenko et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Minimization of a free-energy-like potential for non-equilibrium flow systems at steady state

(2010) R. K. Niven   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Random Texts Do Not Exhibit the Real Zipf's Law-Like Rank Distribution

(2010) Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho et al.   PLoS One

Stigmergic gene transfer and emergence of universal coding

(2009) Mikhail Prokopenko et al.   HFSP Journal

Steady state of a dissipative flow-controlled system and the maximum entropy production principle

(2009) Robert K. Niven   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

(2009) Aaron Clauset et al.   SIAM REVIEW