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High-order interdependencies are central features of complex systems, yet a mechanistic explanation for their emergence remains elusive. Currently, it is unknown under what conditions high-order interdependencies, quantified by the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Enrico Caprioglio , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Luc Berthouze

The complexity of many biological, social and technological systems stems from the richness of the interactions among their units. Over the past decades, a great variety of complex systems has been successfully described as networks whose…

Collective behavior is commonly attributed to direct interactions among system components. Using a minimal stochastic model, we show that higher-order collective structure can instead emerge from shared stochastic environments, even in the…

The regulation of the cell state is a complex process involving several components. These complex dynamics can be modeled using Boolean networks, allowing us to explain the existence of different cell states and the transition between them.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-01-28 Elke K. Markert , Nils Baas , Arnold J. Levine , Alexei Vazquez

Several networks occurring in real life have modular structures that are arranged in an hierarchical fashion. In this paper, we have proposed a model for such networks, using a stochastic generation method. Using this model we show that,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-12 Raj Kumar Pan , Sitabhra Sinha

Individuals interact and cooperate in structured systems. Many studies represent this structure using static networks, where each link represents a permanent connection between two nodes. However, real interactions are generally not…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiaochen Wang , Lei Zhou , Alex McAvoy , Zhenglong Tian , Aming Li

Empirical evidence suggesting that living systems might operate in the vicinity of critical points, at the borderline between order and disorder, has proliferated in recent years, with examples ranging from spontaneous brain activity to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-25 Jorge Hidalgo , Jacopo Grilli , Samir Suweis , Miguel A. Munoz , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan

The increasing volume of ecologically and biologically relevant data has revealed a wide collection of emergent patterns in living systems. Analyzing different datasets, ranging from metabolic gene-regulatory to species interaction…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-13 Daniel M. Busiello , Samir Suweis , Jorge Hidalgo , Amos Maritan

The effect of disturbance on a model ecosystem of sessile and mutually competitive species [Mathiesen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011); Mitarai et al. Phys. Rev. E 86, 011929 (2012) ] is studied. The disturbance stochastically…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Filippo Botta , Namiko Mitarai

The structure of interactions in most of animals and human societies can be best represented by complex hierarchical networks. In order to maintain close to optimal functioning both stability and adaptability are necessary. Here we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-20 Maryam Zamani , Leonardo Camargo-Forero , Tamas Vicsek

Time delays are a common perturbation in systems with many states, such as networked, distributed, or decentralized systems. Current methods analyzing the stability of large systems with time delay typically produce very conservative…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-31 George Armanious , Rick Lind

Since its introduction in 2011, the partial information decomposition (PID) has triggered an explosion of interest in the field of multivariate information theory and the study of emergent, higher-order ("synergistic") interactions in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Thomas F. Varley

When exposed to a contagion phenomenon, individuals may respond to the perceived risk of infection by adopting behavioral changes, aiming to reduce their exposure or their risk of infecting others. The social cost of such adaptive behaviors…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-06 Marco Mancastroppa , Márton Karsai , Alain Barrat

Simple nonlinear dynamical systems with multiple stable stationary states are often taken as models for switchlike biological systems. This paper considers the interaction of multiple such simple multistable systems when they are embedded…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-10 Dennis Cates Wylie

Robustness, the insensitivity of some of a biological system's functionalities to a set of distinct conditions, is intimately linked to fitness. Recent studies suggest that it may also play a vital role in enabling the evolution of species.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-12-15 James M Whitacre , Axel Bender

We study the dynamics of coupled oscillator networks with higher-order interactions and their ability to store information. In particular, the fixed points of these oscillator systems consist of two clusters of oscillators that become…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-08-03 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

Randomly-assembled dynamical systems are theoretically predicted to be unstable upon crossing a critical threshold of complexity, as first shown by May. Yet, empirical complex systems exhibit remarkable stability, indicating the presence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Francesco Ferraro , Christian Grilletta , Amos Maritan , Samir Suweis , Sandro Azaele

Higher-order interactions are prevalent in real-world complex systems and exert unique influences on system evolution that cannot be captured by pairwise interactions. We incorporate game transitions into the higher-order prisoner's dilemma…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-06-25 Yi-Duo Chen , Zhi-Xi Wu , Jian-Yue Guan

If two species exhibit different nonlinear responses to a single shared resource, and if each species modifies the resource dynamics such that this favors its competitor, they may stably coexist. This coexistence mechanism, known as…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-16 Florian Hartig , Tamara Münkemüller , Karin Johst , Ulf Dieckmann

Species or population that proliferate faster than others become dominant in numbers. Catalysis allows catalytic sets within a molecular reaction network to dominate the non catalytic parts of the network by processing most of the available…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-31 Rudolf Hanel