About the Authors

Gérald Gurtner

Affiliation Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Stefania Vitali

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Marco Cipolla

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Fabrizio Lillo

fabrizio.lillo@sns.it

Affiliations Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

Rosario Nunzio Mantegna

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Center for Network Science and Department of Economics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Salvatore Miccichè

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Simone Pozzi

Affiliation Deep Blue s.r.l., Roma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have the following interests: co-author Simone Pozzi is affiliated to Deep Blue s.r.l., a commercial company based in Italy. The research is funded by SESAR-JU through the research project ELSA “Empìrically grounded agent based models for thè future ATM scenario”, Contract Number 10-220719-C18. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL RNM SM SP. Performed the experiments: GG SV MC. Analyzed the data: GG SV MC FL RNM SM SP. Wrote the paper: GG SV MC FL RNM SM SP.