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Active materials take advantage of their internal sources of energy to self-organize in an automated manner. This feature provides a novel opportunity to design micron-scale machines with minimal required control. However, self-organization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-22 Zijie Qu , Jialong Jiang , Heun Jin Lee , Rob Phillips , Shahriar Shadkhoo , Matt Thomson

This paper aims at providing a rigorous definition of self- organization, one of the most desired properties for dynamic systems (e.g., peer-to-peer systems, sensor networks, cooperative robotics, or ad-hoc networks). We characterize…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-11 Emmanuelle Anceaume , Xavier Défago , Maria Potop-Butucaru , Matthieu Roy

Autocatalysis, the ability of a chemical system to make more of itself, is a crucial feature in metabolism and is speculated to have played a decisive role in the origin of life. Nevertheless, how autocatalytic systems behave far from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Armand Despons

Activation functions play a key role in neural networks so it becomes fundamental to understand their advantages and disadvantages in order to achieve better performances. This paper will first introduce common types of non linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Dabal Pedamonti

According to empirical observations, some pattern formation phenomena in driven many-particle systems are more pronounced in the presence of a certain noise level. We investigate this phenomenon of fluctuation-driven ordering with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dirk Helbing , Tadeusz Platkowski

Nonlinear behavior in the hopping transport of interacting charges enables reconfigurable logic in disordered dopant network devices, where voltages applied at control electrodes tune the relation between voltages applied at input…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Henri Tertilt , Jonas Mensing , Marlon Becker , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Peter A. Bobbert , Andreas Heuer

Collective dynamics result from interactions among noisy dynamical components. Examples include heartbeats, circadian rhythms, and various pattern formations. Because of noise in each component, collective dynamics inevitably involve…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 Naoki Masuda , Yoji Kawamura , Hiroshi Kori

We study the relationship between dynamical properties and interaction patterns in complex oscillator networks in the presence of noise. A striking finding is that noise leads to a general, one-to-one correspondence between the dynamical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-02-05 Jie Ren , Wen-Xu Wang , Baowen Li , Ying-Cheng Lai

Self-organized criticality is a well-established phenomenon, where a system dynamically tunes its structure to operate on the verge of a phase transition. Here, we show that the dynamics inside the self-organized critical state are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-19 Silja Sormunen , Thilo Gross , Jari Saramäki

An economy-wide production network, manifested through monetary input-output coefficients, inherently destabilizes during the general equilibrium propagation of sectoral productivity shocks when substitution elasticities are non-neutral.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-12-29 Satoshi Nakano , Kazuhiko Nishimura

Self-organized network dynamics prevails for systems across physics, biology and engineering. How external signals generate distributed responses in networked systems fundamentally underlies their function, yet is far from fully understood.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-05 Xiaozhu Zhang , Sarah Hallerberg , Moritz Matthiae , Dirk Witthaut , Marc Timme

This paper develops a mathematical framework to study signal networks, in which nodes can be active or inactive, and their activation or deactivation is driven by external signals and the states of the nodes to which they are connected via…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Bernd Heidergott , Frank den Hollander , Ines Lindner , Azadeh Parvaneh

This paper is concerned with the study of synchronization and consensus phenomena in complex networks of diffusively-coupled nodes subject to external disturbances. Specifically, we make use of stochastic Lyapunov functions to provide…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Giovanni Russo , Rovert Shorten

The paper examines the discrete-time dynamics of neuron models (of excitatory and inhibitory types) with piecewise linear activation functions, which are connected in a network. The properties of a pair of neurons (one excitatory and the…

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Network theory is rapidly changing our understanding of complex systems, but the relevance of topological features for the dynamic behavior of metabolic networks, food webs, production systems, information networks, or cascade failures of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dirk Helbing , Ulrich Witt , Stefan Laemmer , Thomas Brenner

We consider the influence of local noise on a generalized network of populations having positive and negative feedbacks. The population dynamics at the nodes is nonlinear, typically chaotic, and allows cessation of activity if the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-03 Anshul Choudhary , Vivek Kohar , Sudeshna sinha

Nature is rife with networks that are functionally optimized to propagate inputs in order to perform specific tasks. Whether via genetic evolution or dynamic adaptation, many networks create functionality by locally tuning interactions…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-14 Jason W. Rocks , Henrik Ronellenfitsch , Andrea J. Liu , Sidney R. Nagel , Eleni Katifori

We investigate the properties of an autoassociative network of threshold-linear units whose synaptic connectivity is spatially structured and asymmetric. Since the methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics cannot be applied to such a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasser Roudi , Alessandro Treves

Inspired by studies on airline networks we propose a general model for weighted networks in which topological growth and weight dynamics are both determined by cost adversarial mechanism. Since transportation networks are designed and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-12-10 Yihong Hu , Daoli Zhu , Yang Li , Bing Su , Bingxin Zhu

We propose a new non-equilibrium model for spatial pattern formation on the basis of local information transfer. Unlike standard models of pattern formation it is not based on the Turing instability. Information is transmitted through the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thimo Rohlf , Stefan Bornholdt