Bow Tie Structures
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= organisational model for complex processes
Description
"Highly organized, universal structures underlying biological and technological networks mediate effective trade-offs among efficiency, robustness and evolvability, with predictable fragilities that can be used to understand disease pathogenesis. The aims of this article are to describe the features of one common organizational architecture in biology, the bow tie. Large-scale organizational frameworks such as the bow tie are necessary starting points for higher-resolution modeling of complex biologic processes" (http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle/CmplxNets/Trends.pdf)
Discussion
- comment by Paul Hartzog at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-different-is-your-bow-tie/2010/06/21
More Information
- Bow-Tie Control Systems, http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/06/bow-tie-contr-1.html
- The Resilient Energy Bow-Tie, http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/06/the-resilient-energy-bowtie.html
- JOURNAL: New Takes on the 2008 Meltdown, http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/03/journal-new-takes-on-the-2008-meltdown.html
- Bow tie (biology), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_tie_%28biology%29