A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Abstract Systems that exhibit complex behaviours are often found in a particular dynamical
condition, poised between order and disorder. This observation is at the core of the so …

An important challenge in the study of complex systems is to identify appropriate effective
variables at different times. In this paper, we explain why structures that are persistent with …

Candidate germline polymorphisms of genes belonging to the pathways of four drugs used in
osteosarcoma standard chemotherapy associated with risk, survival and toxicity in non-metastatic …

An important step in understanding the nature of the brain is to identify “cores” in the brain
network, where brain areas strongly interact with each other. Cores can be considered as …

In a previous work, Villani et al. introduced a method to identify candidate emergent
dynamical structures in complex systems. Such a method detects subsets (clusters) of the …

Complex systems often show forms of organisation where a clear-cut hierarchy of levels with
a well-defined direction of information flow cannot be found. In this paper we propose an …

Systems that exhibit complex behaviours often contain inherent dynamical structures which
evolve over time in a coordinated way. In this paper, we present a methodology based on …

Abstract Identifying Relevant Sets, ie, variable subsets that exhibit a coordinated behavior, in
complex systems is a very relevant research topic. Systems that exhibit complex dynamics …

The identification of critical states is a major task in complex systems, and the availability of
measures to detect such conditions is of utmost importance. In general, criticality refers to the …