Extreme fluctuations in small-world-coupled autonomous systems with relaxational dynamics

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Guclu, H ^a   Korniss, G ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme value statistics; Scalable computing; Small world networks; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744375772     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477505002392     Document Type: Article

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