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Alexander F. Siegenfeld, Yaneer Bar‐Yam
The standard assumptions that underlie many conceptual and quantitative frameworks do not hold for many complex physical, biological, and social systems. Complex systems science clarifies when and why such assumptions fail and provides alternative frameworks for understanding the properties of complex systems. This…
Avi Ma'ayan
Complex systems theory is concerned with identifying and characterizing common design elements that are observed across diverse natural, technological and social complex systems. Systems biology, a more holistic approach to study molecules and cells in biology, has advanced rapidly in the past two decades. However, not…
En Xu, Yilin Bi, Hongwei Hu, Xin Chen + 4 more
a Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China b CompleX Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China c Department of Statistics and Data Science, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China d School of Computer…
Pier Luigi Gentili
The goals and targets included in the 2030 Agenda compiled by the United Nations want to stimulate action in areas of critical importance for humanity and the Earth. These goals and targets regard everyone on Earth from both the health and economic and social perspectives. Reaching these goals means to deal with…
James B. Glattfelder, T. Bisig, Richard B. Olsen
| 1 | Introduction | | 1 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2 | | In a Nutshell: Science and Laws of Nature | 1 | | | 2.1 | Overview: The Outline at a Glance | 1 | | 3 | | Fundamental Processes and Mathematical Models (A) | 3 | | | 3.1 | The Success of Mathematical Models | 3 | | | 3.2 | The Paradigm of Fundamental…
M. San Miguel, Jeff Johnson, János Kertész, Kimmo Kaski + 5 more
'Albert Dı́az-Guilera' 'Robert S. MacKay' 'Vittorio Loreto' 'P. Érdi' 'Dirk Helbing'] Abstract. FuturICT foundations are social science, complex systems science, and ICT. The main concerns and challenges in the science of complex systems in the context of FuturICT are laid out in this paper with special emphasis on the…
Carlos Gershenson
Ashby's law of requisite variety states that a controller must have at least as much variety (complexity) as the controlled. Maturana and Varela proposed autopoiesis (self-production) to define living systems. Living systems also require to fulfill the law of requisite variety. A measure of autopoiesis has been…
Paolo Magrassi
One "problem" with the 21st century world, particularly the economic and business worlds, is the phenomenal and increasing number of interconnections between economic agents (consumers, firms, banks, markets, national economies). This implies that such agents are all interacting and consequently giving raise to…
Ray Greek, Mark J Rice
Background The concept of conserved processes presents unique opportunities for using nonhuman animal models in biomedical research. However, the concept must be examined in the context that humans and nonhuman animals are evolved, complex, adaptive systems. Given that nonhuman animals are examples of living systems…
Carlos Gershenson
Self-organization offers a promising approach for designing adaptive systems. Given the inherent complexity of most cyber-physical systems, adaptivity is desired, as predictability is limited. Here I summarize different concepts and approaches that can facilitate self-organization in cyber-physical systems, and thus be…
Matjaž Perc
The fact that relatively simple entities, such as particles or neurons, or even ants or bees or humans, give rise to fascinatingly complex behavior when interacting in large numbers is the hallmark of complex systems science. Agent-based models are frequently employed for modeling and obtaining a predictive…
Tianqi Wu, Haisha Zhang, Kun Wu
Diverse interpretations of the fundamental nature of the world and its evolutionary patterns have shaped multiple paradigms of scientific and philosophical thinking. At the micro level, ontological understandings have evolved from the ancient Greek atomic theory to modern conceptions based on dynamic energy fields. At…
Federico Riva, Caio Graco-Roza, Gergana N. Daskalova, Emma J. Hudgins + 4 more
'Emma J. Hudgins' 'Jayme M.\xa0M. Lewthwaite' 'Erica A. Newman' 'Masahiro Ryo' 'Stefano Mammola'] Ecological systems are quintessentially complex systems. Understanding and being able to predict phenomena typical of complex systems is, therefore, critical to progress in ecology and conservation amidst escalating global…
Saverio Forestiero
Contemporary scientific knowledge is built on both methodological and epistemological reductionism. The discovery of the limitations of the reductionist paradigm in the mathematical treatment of certain physical phenomena originated the notion of complexity, both as a pattern and process. After clarifying some very…
Mariano Bizzarri, Oleg Naimark, José Nieto-Villar, Valeria Fedeli + 1 more
'Alessandro Giuliani'] The “magic” word complexity evokes a multitude of meanings that obscure its real sense. Here we try and generate a bottom-up reconstruction of the deep sense of complexity by looking at the convergence of different features shared by complex systems. We specifically focus on complexity in biology…
George I. Hagstrom, Simon A. Levin
Complex adaptive systems provides a unified framework for explaining ecosystem phenomena. In the past twenty years, complex adaptive systems has been sharpened from an abstract concept into a series of tools that can be used to solve concrete problems. These advances have been led by the development of new techniques…
Eric Smith, Harrison B. Smith, Jakob Lykke Andersen
We consider problems in the functional analysis and evolution of combinatorial chemical reaction networks as rule-based, or three-level systems. The first level consists of rules, realized here as graph-grammar representations of reaction mechanisms. The second level consists of stoichiometric networks of molecules and…
Mariana Gómez-Schiavon, Hana El-Samad
Mathematical models continue to be essential for deepening our understanding of biology. On one extreme, simple or small-scale models help delineate general biological principles. However, the parsimony of detail in these models as well as their assumption of modularity and insulation make them inaccurate for…
Sergio Menendez
From a basic thermodynamic point of view life structures can be viewed as dissipative open systems capable of self replication. Energy flowing from the external environment into the system allows growth of its self replicative entities with a concomitant decrease in internal entropy (complexity) and an increase of the…
Juan G. Diaz Ochoa
Explanations based on low level interacting elements are valuable and powerful since they contribute to identify the key mechanisms of biological functions. However, many dynamic systems based on low level interacting elements with unambiguous, finite and complete information of initial states generate future states…
ALESSANDRO ALIPRANDI, Dario Alessi, Luca Morgan, Elisa Pelorosso + 1 more
Self-organization is a key pathway to achieving high levels of matter complexity. However, an energy-consuming active process, such as a dissipative regime, is essential for adaptation and evolution to occur. In this study, we transform the passive self-organization of a luminescent square planar Pt(II) complex into an…
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Chakraborty's Redox World Model presents a novel abiotic system simulating both a prebiotic energy cycle and a protocell-like structured environment, through a biphasic interfacial redox–chelation framework. Constructed in very limited lab supply, this model exhibits a spontaneous, self-sustaining redox loop based on…
Yoshiharu Mukouyama, Kenya Tanaka, Shuji Nakanishi, Yoshihiro Nakato
The present work reveals that a prebiotic chemical system can generate self-organizing ability that leads to highly ordered structures and an active character such as free independent harmonious behavior. This result is the properties of natural things that have long been overlooked since Darwin’s theory of evolution…
Yoshiharu Mukouyama, Kenya Tanaka, Shuji Nakanishi, Yoshihiro Nakato
The emergence of life on Earth has attracted intense attention but remains unclear. A key problem is that the question of how living organisms can exhibit self-organizing ability that leads to highly ordered structures and active free independent behavior remains unanswered. This work reveals, by computer simulation…
Yoshiharu Mukouyama, Kenya Tanaka, Shuji Nakanishi, Yoshihiro Nakato
The emergence of life on Earth has attracted intense attention but remains unclear. A key problem is that the question of how living organisms can exhibit self-organizing ability that leads to highly ordered structures and active free independent behavior remains unanswered. This work reveals, by computer simulation…
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We present a chemical framework in which adaptive organization is achieved by tuning a gated quantum resonator (adaptive genomic resonator) {driven quantum oscillator} across a driven, dissipative reaction manifold (fitness landscape) {Hamiltonian potential surface}. In this view, catalytic elements set gain and phase…
Mohsen Farshad
Providing a simple description of entropy as the foundation of thermodynamics is necessary for researchers in explaining physical phenomena in the universe. Here we dive deep into the meaning of entropy starting from the basics and ending with the Newton's second law of motion which may be rooted in a hidden dimension…