ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2017
Scale invariance in natural and artificial collective systems: a review.
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- Functional duality in group criticality via ambiguous interactions.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Income distribution in Thailand is scale-invariant.PloS one · 2023Article
- Inverse centrifugal effect induced by collective motion of vortices in rotating thermal convection.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Non-extensitivity and criticality of atomic hydropathicity around a voltage-gated sodium channel's pore: a modeling study.Journal of biological physics · 2021Article
- Interaction network effects on position- and velocity-based models of collective motion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Hybrid foraging in patchy environments using spatial memory.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
- Adaptive Foraging in Dynamic Environments Using Scale-Free Interaction Networks.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2020Article
- The Neglected Pieces of Designing Collective Decision-Making Processes.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2019Article
- Heterogeneity and Delayed Activation as Hallmarks of Self-Organization and Criticality in Excitable Tissue.Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Atrial Rotor Dynamics Under Complex Fractional Order Diffusion.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Self-organized collective coordinated behaviour is an impressive phenomenon, observed in a variety of natural and artificial systems, in which coherent global structures or dynamics emerge from local interactions between individual parts. If the degree of collective integration of a system does not depend on size, its level of robustness and adaptivity is typically increased and we refer to it as scale-invariant. In this review, we first identify three main types of self-organized scale-invariant systems: scale-invariant spatial structures, scale-invariant topologies and scale-invariant dynamics. We then provide examples of scale invariance from different domains in science, describe their origins and main features and discuss potential challenges and approaches for designing and engineering artificial systems with scale-invariant properties.
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