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The Binary Search Tree (BST) is average in computer science which supports a compact data structure in memory and oneself even conducts a row of quick algorithms, by which people often apply it in dynamical circumstance. Besides these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Yong Tan

Higher-order networks, naturally described as hypergraphs, are essential for modeling real-world systems involving interactions among three or more entities. Stochastic block models offer a principled framework for characterizing mesoscale…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kazuki Nakajima , Yuya Sasaki , Takeaki Uno , Masaki Aida

Probabilistic transition system specifications (PTSSs) in the ntmufnu/ntmuxnu format provide structural operational semantics for Segala-type systems that exhibit both probabilistic and nondeterministic behavior and guarantee that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-08-15 Matias David Lee , Daniel Gebler , Pedro R. D'Argenio

Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

In [ABM07], Abdulla et al. introduced the concept of decisiveness, an interesting tool for lifting good properties of finite Markov chains to denumerable ones. Later, this concept was extended to more general stochastic transition systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Mickael Randour , Cédric Rivière , Pierre Vandenhove

We generalize the concept "well-posed linear system" to stochastic linear control systems and study some basic properties of such kind systems. Under our generalized definition, we show the well-posedness of the stochastic heat equation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Qi Lu

Structural controllability has been proposed as an analytical framework for making predictions regarding the control of complex networks across myriad disciplines in the physical and life sciences (Liu et al., Nature:473(7346):167-173,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-28 Noah J. Cowan , Erick J. Chastain , Daril A. Vilhena , James S. Freudenberg , Carl T. Bergstrom

This paper outlines a general formal framework for reasoning systems, intended to support future analysis of inference architectures across domains. We model reasoning systems as structured tuples comprising phenomena, explanation space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

To better understand the structure and function of complex systems, researchers often represent direct interactions between components in complex systems with networks, assuming that indirect influence between distant components can be…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-18 Renaud Lambiotte , Martin Rosvall , Ingo Scholtes

Structured prediction tasks pose a fundamental trade-off between the need for model complexity to increase predictive power and the limited computational resources for inference in the exponentially-sized output spaces such models require.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-08-17 David Weiss , Benjamin Sapp , Ben Taskar

Many complex systems satisfy a set of constraints on their degrees of freedom, and at the same time, they are able to work and adapt to different conditions. Here, we describe the emergence of this ability in a simplified model in which the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Ginestra Bianconi , Roberto Mulet

Semiconstrained systems were recently suggested as a generalization of constrained systems, commonly used in communication and data-storage applications that require certain offending subsequences be avoided. In an attempt to apply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Ohad Elishco , Tom Meyerovitch , Moshe Schwartz

Well-quasi orders such as homeomorphic embedding are commonly used to ensure termination of program analysis and program transformation, in particular supercompilation. We compare eight well-quasi orders on how discriminative they are and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Torben Æ. Mogensen

Many theories are formulated as constrained systems. We provide a mechanism that explains the origin of physical states of a constrained system by a process of selection of noiseless subsystems when the system is coupled to an external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Konopka , Fotini Markopoulou

In [ABM07], Abdulla et al. introduced the concept of decisiveness, an interesting tool for lifting good properties of finite Markov chains to denumerable ones. Later, this concept was extended to more general stochastic transition systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Patricia Bouyer , Thomas Brihaye , Mickael Randour , Cédric Rivière , Pierre Vandenhove

Time series clustering promises to uncover hidden structural patterns in data with applications across healthcare, finance, industrial systems, and other critical domains. However, without validated ground truth information, researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Isabella Degen , Zahraa S Abdallah , Henry W J Reeve , Kate Robson Brown

General frameworks have been recently proposed as unifying theories for processes combining non-determinism with quantitative aspects (such as probabilistic or stochastically timed executions), aiming to provide general results and tools.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Marino Miculan , Marco Peressotti

Population protocols are a well established model of computation by anonymous, identical finite state agents. A protocol is well-specified if from every initial configuration, all fair executions reach a common consensus. The central…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Michael Blondin , Javier Esparza , Stefan Jaax , Philipp J. Meyer

The concept of structured occurrence nets is an extension of that of occurrence nets which are directed acyclic graphs that represent causality and concurrency information concerning a single execution of a distributed system. The formalism…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mohammed Alahmadi , Salma Alharbi , Talal Alharbi , Nadiyah Almutairi , Tuwailaa Alshammari , Anirban Bhattacharyya , Maciej Koutny , Bowen Li , Brian Randell

The existence of generalized steady states (GSSs) in nonlinear mechanical systems under moderate temporally aperiodic forcing has only been shown recently. Here we derive systematic expansions for such GSSs and construct a numerical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Roshan S. Kaundinya , Isabella Thiel , Bálint Kaszás , Shobhit Jain , George Haller