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Is it SOC or not? asked Hendrik Jeldtoft Jensen in the final chapter of his book Self- Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems. Let us quote the beginning of that chapter that is still unanswered: Ever since the term “self-organized criticality” was introduced by Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld (BTW) in their 1987 paper for Physical Review Letters, the concept has been surrounded by a hectic air of controversy. There are a number of reasons for this.
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Aschwanden, M. (2011). SOC-Like Models. In: Self-Organized Criticality in Astrophysics. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15001-2_10
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