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Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability (open access)

Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability

This article proposes a social model of spontaneous self-organization generating criticality and resilience, called Self-Organized Temporal Criticality (SOTC).
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library
On social sensitivity to either zealot or independent minorities (open access)

On social sensitivity to either zealot or independent minorities

This article uses the self-organized temporal criticality (SOTC) model to identify the timing of crucial events as a new mechanism with which to generate criticality, thereby establishing a way for the internal dynamics of the decision making process to suppresss the sensitivity of social opinion to either zealot or independent minorities.
Date: March 27, 2018
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library