Jean M. Carlson

TL;DR: What is known and what is needed to develop a holistic understanding of the role of fire in the Earth system are reviewed, particularly in view of the pervasive impact of fires and the likelihood that they will become increasingly difficult to control as climate changes.

TL;DR: This work investigates the role of modularity in human learning by identifying dynamic changes of modular organization spanning multiple temporal scales and develops a general statistical framework for the identification of modular architectures in evolving systems.

TL;DR: This paper contrasts HOT with alternative perspectives on complexity, drawing on real-world examples and also model systems, particularly those from self-organized criticality.

TL;DR: This work introduces a mechanism for generating power law distributions, referred to as highly optimized tolerance (HOT), which is motivated by biological organisms and advanced engineering technologies, and investigates the mechanism in the context of percolation and sand pile models in order to emphasize the sharp contrasts between SOC and self-organized criticality.