Cascading behaviors are ubiquitous, from power-grid failures (1) to “flash crashes” in financial markets (2, 3) to the spread of political movements such as the “Arab Spring” (4). The causes of these ...
Up on the hill there’s an institute that is devoted to studying complex systems, and it's world renowned. [The Santa Fe Institute] is the most famous institute in the world for studying complex ...
The random graph of Erdos and Renyi is one of the oldest and best studied models of a network, and possesses the considerable advantage of being exactly solvable for many of its average properties.