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A complex system is a system composed of many interacting parts, often called agents, which displays collective behavior that does not follow trivially from the behaviors of the individual parts. Examples include condensed matter systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 M. E. J. Newman

Mathematical software systems are becoming more and more important in pure and applied mathematics in order to deal with the complexity and scalability issues inherent in mathematics. In the last decades we have seen a cambric explosion of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Katja Bercic , Jacques Carette , William M. Farmer , Michael Kohlhase , Dennis Müller , Florian Rabe , Yasmine Sharoda

Modeling and simulation are widely used in cybersecurity research to assess cyber threats, evaluate defense mechanisms, and analyze vulnerabilities. However, the diversity of application areas, the variety of cyberattacks scenarios, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Luca Serena , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

Many biological and physical systems exhibit behaviour at multiple spatial, temporal or population scales. Multiscale processes provide challenges when they are to be simulated using numerical techniques. While coarser methods such as…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-02-12 Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates

Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However, all of the simulation methods come with limitations. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-04 Edward R. Smith , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

We present a method of discrete modeling and analysis of multilevel dynamics of complex large-scale hierarchical dynamic systems subject to external dynamic control mechanism. Architectural model of information system supporting simulation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2008-09-23 Armen Bagdasaryan

Simulation models are an absolute necessity in the human and social sciences, which can only very exceptionally use experimental science methods to construct their knowledge. Models enable the simulation of social processes by replacing the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-06 J. Raimbault , D. Pumain

The ubiquitous presence of computer simulations in all kinds of research areas evidence their role as the new driving force for the advancement of science and engineering research. Nothing seems to escape the image of success that computer…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Juan M. Durán

One may define a complex system as a system in which phenomena emerge as a consequence of multiscale interaction among the system's components and their environments. The field of Complex Systems is the study of such systems--usually…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Russ Abbott

Multilevel modeling and simulation (M&S) is becoming increasingly relevant due to the benefits that this methodology offers. Multilevel models allow users to describe a system at multiple levels of detail. From one side, this can make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Luca Serena , Moreno Marzolla , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti

Complex risk is a critical factor for both intelligent systems and risk management. In this paper, we consider a special class of risk statistics, named complex risk statistics. Our result provides a new approach for addressing complex…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2020-12-01 Fei Sun , Yichuan Dong

This article focuses on the optimization of a complex system which is composed of several subsystems. On the one hand, these subsystems are subject to multiple objectives, local constraints as well as local variables, and they are…

Differentiable simulators continue to push the state of the art across a range of domains including computational physics, robotics, and machine learning. Their main value is the ability to compute gradients of physical processes, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rhys Newbury , Jack Collins , Kerry He , Jiahe Pan , Ingmar Posner , David Howard , Akansel Cosgun

Software systems are expansive, exhibiting behaviors characteristic of complex systems, such as self-organization and emergence. These systems, highlighted by advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI applications developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jan Žižka

Using a large database (~ 215 000 records) of relevant articles, we empirically study the "complex systems" field and its claims to find universal principles applying to systems in general. The study of references shared by the papers…

Polymer materials have the characteristic feature that they are multiscale systems by definition. Already the description of a single molecules involves a multitude of different scales, and cooperative processes in polymer assemblies are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Friederike Schmid

Developing smart house systems has been a great challenge for researchers and engineers in this area because of the high cost of implementation and evaluation process of these systems, while being very time consuming. Testing a designed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Zahra Forootan Jahromi , Amir Rajabzadeh , Ali Reza Manashty

Multivariate spatial data plays an important role in computational science and engineering simulations. The potential features and hidden relationships in multivariate data can assist scientists to gain an in-depth understanding of a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Xiangyang He , Yubo Tao , Qirui Wang , Hai Lin

Recommender systems research is concerned with many aspects of recommender system behavior and effects than simply its effectiveness, and simulation can be a powerful tool for uncovering these effects. In this brief position paper, I…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Michael D. Ekstrand

With the rise of computers, simulation models have emerged beside the more traditional statistical and mathematical models as a third pillar for ecological analysis. Broadly speaking, a simulation model is an algorithm, typically…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-24 Florian Hartig