Self-organized evolution in a socioeconomic environment.
We propose a general scenario to analyze technological changes in socio-economic environments. We illustrate the ideas with a model that incorporating the main trends is simple enough to extract analytical results and, at the same time, sufficiently complex to display a rich dynamic behavior. Our study shows that there exists a macroscopic observable that is maximized in a regime where the system is critical, in the sense that the distribution of events follow power laws. Computer simulations show that, in addition, the system always self-organizes to achieve the optimal performance in the stationary state.
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Departament d'Enginyeria Informàtica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Carretera Salou s/n, E-43006 Tarragona, Spain.
Díaz-Guilera
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Pérez
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Vega-Redondo
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D003198:Computer Simulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010825:Physics / Q000379:methods*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors