Self Organized Criticality
Self-organized criticality (SOC) is a property of dynamical systems that have a critical phenomena, critical point as an attractor. Their macroscopic behavior thus displays the spatial or temporal scale invariance, scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point (physics), critical point of a phase transition, but without the need to tune control parameters to a precise value, because the system, effectively, tunes itself as it evolves towards criticality. The concept was put forward by Per Bak, Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld ("BTW") in a paper Papercore summaryhttp://papercore.org/Bak1987 published in 1987 in ''Physical Review Letters'', and is considered to be one of the mechanisms by which complexity arises in nature. Its concepts have been applied across fields as diverse as geophysics, physical cosmology, evolutionary biology and ecology, bio-inspired computing and optimization (mathematics), economics, quantum gravity, sociology, solar physics, plasma physics, neu ...
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