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Boolean networks, widely used to model gene regulation, exhibit a phase transition between regimes in which small perturbations either die out or grow exponentially. We show and numerically verify that this phase transition in the dynamics…
We introduce a robust framework for learning various generalized Hamiltonian dynamics from noisy, sparse phase-space data and in an unsupervised manner based on variational Bayesian inference. Although conservative, dissipative, and…
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Automated verification of living organism models allows us to gain previously unknown knowledge about underlying biological processes. In this paper, we show the benefits to use parametric time Petri nets in order to analyze precisely the…
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