title: Classification scheme for phenomenological universalities in growth problems in physics and other sciences.
abstract: A classification in universality classes of broad categories of phenomenologies, belonging to physics and other disciplines, may be very useful for a cross fertilization among them and for the purpose of pattern recognition and interpretation of experimental data. We present here a simple scheme for the classification of nonlinear growth problems. The success of the scheme in predicting and characterizing the well known Gompertz, West, and logistic models, suggests to us the study of a hitherto unexplored class of nonlinear growth problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Catania, Italy and INFN-Catania, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Castorina
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Delsanto
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guiot
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016015:Logistic Models; D010825:Physics / Q000145:classification*; D012586:Science / Q000145:classification*