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Highly Optimized Tolerance: Robustness and Design in Complex Systems

Carlson, J. M., Doyle, John·2000·Physical Review Letters

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Highly optimized tolerance (HOT) is a mechanism that relates evolving structure to power laws in interconnected systems. HOT systems arise where design and evolution create complex systems sharing common features, including (1) high efficiency, performance, and robustness to designed-for uncertainties, (2) hypersensitivity to design flaws and unanticipated perturbations, (3) nongeneric, specialized, structured configurations, and (4) power laws. We study the impact of incorporating increasing levels of design and find that even small amounts of design lead to HOT states in percolation.

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Authors
Carlson, J. M., & Doyle, J.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2000-03-13
Volume
84
Issue
11
Pages
2529-2532
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
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W2099637108
Cited by
330
References
1
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8.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
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