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We review and investigate some new problems and results in the field of dynamical systems generated by iteration of maps, {\beta}-transformations, partitions, group actions, bundle dynamical systems, Hasse-Kloosterman maps, and some aspects…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-04-12 Nikolaj Glazunov

In the last few decades or so, we witness a paradigm shift in our nature studies - from a data-processing based computational approach to an information-processing based cognitive approach. The process is restricted and often misguided by…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Emanuel Diamant

Large complexes of classical particles play central roles in biology, in polymer physics, and in other disciplines. However, physics currently lacks mathematical methods for describing such complexes in terms of component particles,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-25 Muir J. Morrison , Justin B. Kinney

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…

Rigidity is an emergent property of materials - it is not a feature of individual components that comprise the structure, but instead arises from interactions between many constituent parts. Recently, it has been recognized that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-27 Kelly Aspinwall , Tyler Hain , M. Lisa Manning

The term complexity derives etymologically from the Latin plexus, which means interwoven. Intuitively, this implies that something complex is composed by elements that are difficult to separate. This difficulty arises from the relevant…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Carlos Gershenson

Network theory has unveiled the underlying structure of complex systems such as the Internet or the biological networks in the cell. It has identified universal properties of complex networks, and the interplay between their structure and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-21 Ginestra Bianconi

Despite the spectacular achievements of molecular biology in the second half of the twentieth century and the crucial advances it permitted in cancer research, the fight against cancer has brought some disillusions. It is nowadays more and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Thomas Risler

This paper reviews connections between physics and computation, and explores their implications. The main topics are computational "hardness" of physical systems, computational status of fundamental theories, quantum computation, and the…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joseph Shipman

This note is a brief review of the analysis of long transients in dynamical systems. The problem of long transients arose in many disciplines, from physical and chemical kinetic to biology and even social sciences. Detailed analysis of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-17 Alexander N. Gorban

Understanding and modelling the complexity of the immune system is a challenge that is shared by the ImmunoComplexiT$^1$ thematic network from the RNSC. The immune system is a complex biological, adaptive, highly diversified, self-organized…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-27 Véronique Thomas-Vaslin

Modern life sciences research is increasingly relying on artificial intelligence approaches to model biological systems, primarily centered around the use of machine learning (ML) models. Although ML is undeniably useful for identifying…

We review the possibilities and difficulties for statistical physicists if they apply their methods to biology, economics, or sociology.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Dietrich Stauffer

Complex systems and their underlying convoluted networks are ubiquitous, all we need is an eye for them. They pose problems of organized complexity which cannot be approached with a reductionist method. Complexity science and its emergent…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Massimo Franceschet

An attempt of a new kind of complexity anthropology is considered.

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-04-21 Michael A. Popov

Various aspects of Supersymmetry in 1-dimensional systems are analyzed.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico Deotto

In this review, we discuss modularity and hierarchy in biological systems. We review examples from protein structure, genetics, and biological networks of modular partitioning of the geometry of biological space. We review theories to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-04 Dirk M. Lorenz , Alice Jeng , Michael W. Deem

The molecular biology revolution of the last seventy five years has transformed our view of living systems. Scientific explanations of biological phenomena are now synonymous with the identification of the genes, proteins, and signaling…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Pankaj Mehta

During the past two decades, percolation has long served as a basic paradigm for network resilience, community formation and so on in complex systems. While the percolation transition is known as one of the most robust continuous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-03 Deokjae Lee , Y. S. Cho , K. -I. Goh , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng

The fast changing reality in technical and natural domains perceived by always more accurate observations has drawn attention on new and very broad class of systems with specific behaviour represented under the common wording complexity.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-06-06 Michel Cotsaftis