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We introduce a solvable model of randomly growing systems consisting of many independent subunits. Scaling relations and growth rate distributions in the limit of infinite subunits are analysed theoretically. Various types of scaling…

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LHC ALICE data are interpreted in terms of statistical power-law tailed pT spectra. As explanation we derive such statistical distributions for particular particle number fluctuation patterns in a finite heat bath exactly, and for general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-19 T. S. Biró , G. G. Barnaföldi , P. Ván , K. Ürmössy

Power law distributions of macroscopic observables are ubiquitous in both the natural and social sciences. They are indicative of correlated, cooperative phenomena between groups of interacting agents at the microscopic level. In this paper…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 P Ormerod , C Mounfield

In this paper we propose a method for sparse dynamic allocation of resources to bound the risk of spreading processes, such as epidemics and wildfires, using convex optimization and dynamic programming techniques. Here, risk is defined as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-18 Vera L. J. Somers , Ian R. Manchester

Processes involving bursts of activity separated by quiescent periods occur across diverse systems and scales. In human dynamics, these phenomena have been described by power-law inter-event time distributions, $P(t)\sim t^{-\alpha}$, with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-17 Morten Møller , Philipp Rahe , Sadegh Ghaderzadeh , Elena Besley , Philip Moriarty

Maximum likelihood estimation is an important statistical technique for estimating missing data, for example in climate and environmental applications, which are usually large and feature data points that are irregularly spaced. In…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Sameh Abdulah , Hatem Ltaief , Ying Sun , Marc G. Genton , David E. Keyes

For ordinary (independent) percolation on a large class of lattices it is well known that below the critical percolation parameter $p_c$ the cluster size distribution has exponential decay and that power-law behavior of this distribution…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-01-10 J. van den Berg

We perform a numerical study of the long range (LR) ferromagnetic Ising model with power law decaying interactions ($J \propto r^{-d-\sigma}$) both on a one-dimensional chain ($d=1$) and on a square lattice ($d=2$). We use advanced cluster…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-13 Maria Chiara Angelini , Giorgio Parisi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Motivated by recent experiments with ultra-cold matter, we derive a new bound on the propagation of information in $D$-dimensional lattice models exhibiting $1/r^{\alpha}$ interactions with $\alpha>D$. The bound contains two terms: One…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Zhe-Xuan Gong , Michael Foss-Feig , Spyridon Michalakis , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We study the susceptible-infected model with power-law waiting time distributions $P(\tau)\sim \tau^{-\alpha}$, as a model of spreading dynamics under heterogeneous human activity patterns. We found that the average number of new infections…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-03-09 Byungjoon Min , K. -I. Goh , Alexei Vazquez

Quick response is a widely adopted strategy to mitigate overproduction in the manufacturing industry, yet recent research reveals a counter-intuitive paradox: while it reduces waste from unsold finished goods, it may incentivize firms to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Panayotis P. Papavassilopoulos , Grani A. Hanasusanto , Yijie Wang

Power-law scalings are ubiquitous to physical phenomena undergoing a continuous phase transition. The classic Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model of epidemics is one such example where the scaling behavior near a critical point has…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-18 Sarabjeet Singh , Christopher R. Myers

A commonly used model for fault-tolerant computation is that of cellular automata. The essential difficulty of fault-tolerant computation is present in the special case of simply remembering a bit in the presence of faults, and that is the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-10 Mark McCann , Nicholas Pippenger

Linear programming is used as a standard tool for optimising unit commitment or power flows in energy supply systems. For heat supply systems, however, it faces a relevant limitation: For them, energy yield depends on the output…

We address the optimization of the sum rate performance in multicell interference-limited singlehop networks where access points are allowed to cooperate in terms of joint resource allocation. The resource allocation policies considered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-19 David Gesbert , Marios Kountouris

Existing or planned power grids need to evaluate survivability under extreme events, like a number of peak load overloading conditions, which could possibly cause system collapses (i.e. blackouts). For realistic extreme events that are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Qinghua Ma , Reetam Sen Biswas , Denis Osipov , Guannan Qu , Soummya Kar , Shimiao Li

Sparse decision trees are one of the most common forms of interpretable models. While recent advances have produced algorithms that fully optimize sparse decision trees for prediction, that work does not address policy design, because the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Ali Behrouz , Mathias Lecuyer , Cynthia Rudin , Margo Seltzer

We study a turbulence closure model in which the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^\alpha$ of the velocity field represents the turbulence diffusivity. We investigate the energy spectrum of the model by applying Pao's energy transfer theory.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Feifei Xu

The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource---one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, and opportunistic. This type of resource has been used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Adriana Iamnitchi , Ian Foster

We show that hyperscaling and finite-size scaling imply that the probability distribution of the order parameter in finite size critical systems exhibit data collapse. We consider the examples of equilibrium critical systems, and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vivek Aji , Nigel Goldenfeld