Systems/Chaos/Pattern Formation/Complexity

Mathematical framework can simplify the process of selection and placement In the 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash, the recovered black box from the aftermath hinted that a failed pressure sensor may have caused the ill-fated aircraft to nose…

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) explains the advantage that animals have of using a specific type of chaotic type of movement called a "Lévy walk," and how this type of behavior emerges.…

Credit: University of Warwick Many complex systems have underlying networks: they have nodes which represent units of the system and their edges indicate connections between the units. In some contexts, the connections are…

Based on extensive data analysis, an international team publishes global reference curve in the journal Science "Our goal was to create a new reference of past climate over the last 66 million years, which not only incorporates the…

In a book co-authored by Massimo Riccaboni, professor of economics at IMT School, a new perspective on innovation and growth A tiny virus, emerged apparently from nowhere, raged the world shaking the world societies at all the levels and…

Credit: Ola Joensen In physics, it is essential to be able to show a theoretical assumption in actual, physical experiments. For more than a hundred years, physicists have been aware of the link between the concepts of disorder in…

Using game magnetization and susceptibility in an analytic investigation of cooperation with infinite numbers of people Credit: Colin Benjamin and Aditya Dash WASHINGTON, September 8, 2020 -- When looking at humanity from a…

Syracuse, N.Y. - A recent study by sport analytics professors shows the Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM) statistic used to evaluate the performance of NBA players is sometimes misleading because it does not accurately account for the quality of…

Rock-melting forces occurring much deeper in the Earth than previously understood appear to drive tremors along a notorious segment of California's San Andreas Fault, according to new USC research that helps explain how quakes happen.…

Rice physicists set far-more-accurate limits on speed of quantum informationCredit: Image courtesy of Zhiyuan Wang/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 3, 2020) - Nature's speed limits aren't posted on road signs, but Rice…

Chaos paper by RIT Assistant Professor Nishant Malik applies method to Indus Valley CivilizationCredit: RIT A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a suite of algorithms to improve the performance of cyber-physical systems - from autonomous vehicles to smart power grids - by balancing each component's need for data with…

Credit: Dr. Amir Goldental, Bar-Ilan University With the addition of just a small number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road, traffic flow can become faster, greener, and safer in the near future, a new study suggests. The…

DOD-funded team is developing guiding principles for popular form of AICredit: Jade Boyd/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug 31, 2020) - Deep learning is an increasingly popular form of artificial intelligence that's routinely used in…

The Complexity Science Hub Vienna compiled more than 6,000 governmental interventions from 56 countries and 24 US states in unprecedented granularity.Credit: CSH Vienna To know which non-pharmaceutical interventions against the…

Credit: Kolchinksy and Wolpert, Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical mathematical model of what it means for a system to "be a computer." At a high level, these…

Traverse separation with a diverse online scientific program Over twenty laureates from mathematics and computer science will contribute to the program through various fashions: lectures, panel discussions, office hours or interviews.…

Scientists at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna are the first to offer an explanation for the linear growth of coronavirus infection curves.Credit: CSH Vienna With the first COVID-19 epidemic peak behind them, many countries…

A new firearm study led by NYU Tandon Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri reveals why people buy guns after a mass shooting; It kicks off a much larger study -- the first of its kind -- on individual, state, and national drivers of firearm…

Synchronization, in which a complex system operates as one body, is an important phenomenon that takes place in an enormous range of scales -- from subatomic particles to galaxies. In biology, fish, birds, and even cells synchronize in…