Will a Large Complex System Be Stable?

MAY, R. M. (1972). Will a Large Complex System Be Stable?. Nature, 238(5364), 413-414.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1972

DOI

10.1038/238413a0

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/238413a0

Cited from

psychology

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Group Cohesion
  • It also bounds prediction in the other direction: a system can be too cohesive, so tightly coupled that a local failure propagates through every link at once — a complexity the single variable flags as readily as it flags the fragile, under-bound case.

Domain-specific

• Generalized Lotka–Volterra Equations
  • May’s classic analysis showed how system size, interaction strength, and connectance can be related to local stability in stylized random community matrices.

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