<i>Self-Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems</i>

This chapter discusses the characterization of the SOC state and the search for a formalism in systems exhibiting SOC.

Abstract

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Characterization of the SOC state 3. Systems exhibiting SOC 4. Computer models 5. The search for a formalism 6. Is it SOC or is it not? Appendices.