Today's strongly connected, global networks have produced highly interdependent systems
that we do not understand and cannot control well. These systems are vulnerable to failure …

The past 25 years have seen a strong increase in the number of publications related to
criticality in different areas of neuroscience. The potential of criticality to explain various …

Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

Metaphors, generalizations and unifications are natural and desirable ingredients of the
evolution of scientific theories and concepts. Physics, in particular, obviously walks along …

Over the past two decades percolation theory has been used to explain and model a wide
variety of phenomena that are of industrial and scientific importance. Examples include …

Spontaneous infra‐slow fluctuations (ISFs) in both neuronal firing rates and membrane
potentials are a defining characteristic of fast (< 1 Hz) mammalian brain activity both in vitro …

Many observations of the dynamics of pedestrian crowds, including various self-organization
phenomena, have been successfully described by simple many-particle models. For ethical …

This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their
interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion …

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by
which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (eg, difflugia) to multi …

The preface is that part of a book which is written last, placed? rst, and read least. Alfred J.
Lotka Elements of Physical Biology Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company 1925 The …