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A framework for asynchronous, signature free, fully local and probabilistically converging total order algorithms is developed, that may survive in high entropy, unstructured Peer-to-Peer networks with near optimal communication efficiency.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Mirco Richter

The avalanche properties of models that exhibit 'self-organized criticality' (SOC) are still mostly awaiting theoretical explanations. A recent mapping (Europhys. Lett.~53, 569) of many sandpile models to interface depinning is presented…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mikko Alava

Various self-organized characteristics of the international system can be identified with the help of a complexity science perspective. The perspective discussed in this article is based on various complexity science concepts and theories,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-25 Ingo Piepers

In strategic classification, an institution (e.g., a bank) anticipates adaptation from users who change their features to increase utility in a classification task (e.g., loan repayment). Since a key challenge is the distribution shift…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Antonio Gois , Sophia Gunluk , Nir Rosenfeld , Nidhi Hegde , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Dhanya Sridhar

We revisit the topic of self-organized criticality (SOC) in simple statistical graph models, with the purpose of capturing essential processes leading to the emergence of macroscopic spacetime from the microscopic dynamics in loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-14 Christine C. Dantas

Since Self-Organised Criticality (SOC) was introduced in the 1987 both the nature of the self-organisation and of the criticality remains controversial. Recent observations on rain precipitation and on brain activity suggest that real…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-02 Lorenzo Palmieri , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Neural systems process information in a dynamical regime between silence and chaotic dynamics. This has lead to the criticality hypothesis which suggests that neural systems reach such a state by self-organizing towards the critical point…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-10 Stefan Landmann , Lorenz Baumgarten , Stefan Bornholdt

The existence of true scale-invariance in slowly driven models of self-organized criticality without a conservation law, as forest-fires or earthquake automata, is scrutinized in this paper. By using three different levels of description -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Juan A. Bonachela , Miguel A. Munoz

A system is in a self-organized critical state if the distribution of some measured events (avalanche sizes, for instance) obeys a power law for as many decades as it is possible to calculate or measure. The finite-size scaling of this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Josue X. Carvalho , Carmen P. C. Prado

Agentic AI systems capable of autonomous planning and extended environmental interaction pose a fundamental control problem: how can humans maintain meaningful oversight of systems that may exceed their own capabilities? Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 William Overman , Mohsen Bayati

Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) problems arise in systems influenced by uncertainty, such as autonomous robots or financial models. Traditional methods like dynamic programming are often intractable for high-dimensional, nonlinear systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Apurva Patil

In this paper, we introduce a Markov process whose unique invariant distribution is the Curie-Weiss model of self-organized criticality (SOC) we designed in arXiv:1301.6911. In the Gaussian case, we prove rigorously that it is a dynamical…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Matthias Gorny

In this article I discuss the outcome of an exploratory research project based on complexity science concepts and theories; this research is focused on the Great Power war dynamics in the time period 1495 - 1945. According to this research,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-25 Ingo Piepers

We have studied the damage spreading (defined in the text) in the 'sandpile' model of self organised criticality. We have studied the variations of the critical time (defined in the text) and the total number of sites damaged at critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ajanta Bhowal Acharyya

Self-organized criticality elucidates the conditions under which physical and biological systems tune themselves to the edge of a second-order phase transition, with scale invariance. Motivated by the empirical observation of bimodal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-22 Serena di Santo , Raffaella Burioni , Alessandro Vezzani , Miguel A. Muñoz

Self-organizing open systems sustained by source--sink fluxes transform stochastic motion into ordered behavior, yet a general dynamical criterion governing this transformation has not been established. Building on a stochastic--dissipative…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-01 Georgi Yordanov Georgiev

Natural systems are inextricably affected by noise. Within recent decades, the manner in which noise affects the collective behavior of self-organized systems, specifically, has garnered considerable interest from researchers and developers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Ge Chen

A new type of spatial-temporal correlation in the process approaching to the self-organized criticality is investigated for the two simple models for biological evolution. The change behaviors of the position with minimum barrier are shown…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. B. Yang , X. Cai , Z. M. Zhou

The following chapter provides an overview of the techniques used to understand Self-Organised Criticality (SOC) by performing computer simulations. Those are of particular significance in SOC, given its very paradigm, the BTW…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-15 Gunnar Pruessner

We employ the eigen microstate approach to explore the self-organized criticality (SOC) in two celebrated sandpile models, namely, the BTW model and the Manna model. In both models, phase transitions from the absorbing-state to the critical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-02 Yongwen Zhang , Maoxin Liu , Gaoke Hu , Teng Liu , Xiaosong Chen