Motivation

• The stability of complex systems is central to the understanding of collective behavior of networks (communities) with many interacting components:

  • Species (in ecology)
  • Human groups (in sociology)
  • Markets (in economics)
  • Computers (e.g. internet etc.)
  • Metabolites or proteins (in cell biology)
  • Neurons (in the brain)

• Question:  

  • How does the stability of systems with many interacting components change as a function of increasing complexity (e.g., network size, connectivity and interaction strength) ?

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