The notion of “phase transition” is a key concept in the theory of complex systems. We encountered an important class of phase transitions in Chap. 3, viz transitions in the overall dynamical state induced by changing the average connectivity in networks of randomly interacting boolean variables.
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Gros, C. (2008). Cellular Automata and Self-Organized Criticality. In: Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71874-1_4
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