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An attempt is made to quantitatively demonstrate the difference between a complex adaptive combat model and conventional combat models. The work shows that complex adaptive models may give rise to "turbulent" dynamics, which emerge once the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 M. K. Lauren

We furnish solid evidence, both theoretical and empirical, towards the existence of a deterministic algorithm for random sparse $\#\Omega(\log n)$-SAT instances, which computes the exact counting of satisfying assignments in sub-exponential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Giorgio Camerani

Maximum satisfiability is a canonical NP-hard optimization problem that appears empirically hard for random instances. Let us say that a Conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula consisting of $k$-clauses is $p$-satisfiable if there exists a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dimitris Achlioptas , Assaf Naor , Yuval Peres

It is well known that, as $n$ tends to infinity, the probability of satisfiability for a random 2-SAT formula on $n$ variables, where each clause occurs independently with probability $\alpha/2n$, exhibits a sharp threshold at $\alpha=1$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-05-20 Elchanan Mossel , Arnab Sen

Hierarchical transition systems provide a popular mathematical structure to represent state-based software applications in which different layers of abstraction are represented by inter-related state machines. The decomposition of high…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Alexandre Madeira , Manuel A. Martins , Luís S. Barbosa

Real-time systems are traditionally classified into hard real-time and soft real-time: in the first category we have safety critical real-time systems where missing a deadline can have catastrophic consequences, whereas in the second class…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Giuseppe Lipari , Luigi Palopoli

We consider the random $k$-SAT problem with $n$ variables, $m=m(n)$ clauses, and clause density $\alpha=\lim_{n\to\infty}m/n$ for $k=2,3$. It is known that if $\alpha$ is small enough, then the random $k$-SAT problem admits a solution with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Andreas Basse-O'Connor , Tobias Lindhardt Overgaard , Mette Skjøtt

The solution-space structure of the 3-Satisfiability Problem (3-SAT) is studied as a function of the control parameter alpha (ratio of number of clauses to the number of variables) using numerical simulations. For this purpose, one has to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexander Mann , A. K. Hartmann

It is found that the statistical level fluctuations of the AQC 3-SAT problem undergo a transition from a poisson (regular) fluctuation form to a form consistent with the predictions of Random Matrix Theory. We present data which suggests…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 David R. Mitchell

In the foreseeable future, toolchains for quantum computing should offer automatic means of transforming a high level problem formulation down to a hardware executable form. Thereby, it is crucial to find (multiple) transformation paths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Lukas Schmidbauer , Wolfgang Mauerer

Random constraint satisfaction problems are interesting model systems for spin-glasses and glassy dynamics studies. As the constraint density of such a system reaches certain threshold value, its solution space may split into extremely many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 Haijun Zhou

We study discrete-time dynamical systems that switch between different evolution rules based on thresholds that themselves adapt over time. Specifically, we analyze the coupled recursion $a_{n+1} = f(a_n)$ if $a_n \leq c_n$ and $a_{n+1} =…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Slimane Alaoui Soulimani Valenti

Complex ecosystems generally consist of a large number of different species utilizing a large number of different resources. Several of their features cannot be captured by models comprising just a few species and resources. Recently,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Stefan Landmann , Andreas Engel

Dynamical systems studies of differential equations often focus on the behavior of solutions near critical points and on invariant manifolds, to elucidate the organization of the associated flow. In addition, effective methods, such as the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Judy Day , Jonathan Rubin , Carson C. Chow

We introduce a new algorithm for checking satisfiability based on a calculus of Dependency sequents (D-sequents). Given a CNF formula F(X), a D-sequent is a record stating that under a partial assignment a set of variables of X is redundant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-23 Eugene Goldberg , Panagiotis Manolios

Many procedures for SAT and SAT-related problems -- in particular for those requiring the complete enumeration of satisfying truth assignments -- rely their efficiency on the detection of partial assignments satisfying an input formula. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Roberto Sebastiani

The random k-SAT instances undergo a "phase transition" from being generally satisfiable to unsatisfiable as the clause number m passes a critical threshold, $r_k n$. This causes a drastic reduction in the number of satisfying assignments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Mingyou Wu

The reliability of atomistic simulations depends on the quality of the underlying energy models providing the source of physical information, for instance for the calculation of migration barriers in atomistic Kinetic Monte Carlo…

In this paper we propose a new type of random CSP model, called Model RB, which is a revision to the standard Model B. It is proved that phase transitions from a region where almost all problems are satisfiable to a region where almost all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ke Xu , Wei Li

We describe an effective landscape introduced in [1] for the analysis of Constraint Satisfaction problems, such as Sphere Packing, K-SAT and Graph Coloring. This geometric construction reexpresses these problems in the more familiar terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-25 Florent Krzakala , Jorge Kurchan