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Synthesis of innovation and obsolescence
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Manfred D. Laubichler +14
Innovation and obsolescence describe the dynamics of ever-churning social and biological systems, from the development of economic markets to scientific and technological progress…
The impact of strong activity disruption on building energetics
Yu-Hsuan Hsu, Sara Beery, Christopher P. Kempes +2
Evidence shows that biological organisms tend to be more energetically efficient per unit size. These scaling patterns observed in biological organisms have also been observed in t…
What makes Individual I's a Collective We; Coordination mechanisms & costs
Jisung Yoon, Chris Kempes, Vicky Chuqiao Yang +3
The collective effort exceeds the sum of its parts when individuals coordinate and regulate their activities and behaviors. This holds true even in self-organizing systems with ope…
Worldwide scaling of waste generation in urban systems
Mingzhen Lu, Chuanbin Zhou, Chenghao Wang +2
The production of waste as a consequence of human activities is one of the most fundamental challenges facing our society and global ecological systems. Waste generation is rapidly…
Scaling Laws for Function Diversity and Specialization Across Socioeconomic and Biological Complex Systems
Vicky Chuqiao Yang, James Holehouse, Hyejin Youn +4
Function diversity, the range of tasks individuals perform, and specialization, the distribution of function abundances, are fundamental to complex adaptive systems. In the absence…
Idea engines: Unifying innovation and obsolescence from markets and genetic evolution to science
Edward D. Lee, Christopher P. Kempes, Geoffrey B. West
Innovation and obsolescence describe dynamics of ever-churning and adapting social and biological systems, concepts that encompass field-specific formulations. We formalize the con…
Scaling laws and a general theory for the growth of public companies
Jiang Zhang, Christopher P. Kempes, Marcus J. Hamilton +2
Publicly traded companies are fundamental units of contemporary economies and markets and are important mechanisms through which humans interact with their environments. Understand…
Scaling of Urban Income Inequality in the United States
Elisa Heinrich Mora, Jacob J. Jackson, Cate Heine +3
Urban scaling analysis, the study of how aggregated urban features vary with the population of an urban area, provides a promising framework for discovering commonalities across ci…
Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
Andrew Berdahl, Christa Brelsford, Caterina De Bacco +12
Pathogens can spread epidemically through populations. Beneficial contagions, such as viruses that enhance host survival or technological innovations that improve quality of life,…