SCALE-FREE
Appearance
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