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SCALE-FREE

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Charles François (2004). SCALE-FREE, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2929.
Collection International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year 2004
Vol. (num.) 2(2)
ID 2929
Object type Methodology or model

Characteristic of any system whose structures and behavior are submitted to power laws encompassing various orders of magnitude .

This property is related to self-organized criticality .

In subsystems, the parts or subsystems have an organization similar to the whole , i.e. they have a fractal structure .

See also

Renormalization, Self similarity

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