Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

Complex Systems

Volume

17

Issue

4

First Page

357

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25088/ComplexSystems.17.4.357

Abstract

This study provides an analysis of the dynamics of fixed-size directed Boolean networks governed by generalizations of elementary cellular automata rules 22 and 126, under a power-law distribution of parent nodes and a popularity parent assignment. The analysis shows the existence of a two-piece chaotic attractor for smaller values of the power-law parameter which evolves into a "cloud"-like attractor for larger values of the parameter. Values of the parameter for which the system exhibits an ordered behavior are indicated as well. The dynamics are investigated using space-time diagrams, delay plots, bifurcation diagrams, and Lyapunov exponent computations. It is also shown that the children (out)links do not obey a power-law distribution; more precisely, numerical investigations indicate that the children links have a Gaussian-like distribution.

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This was published under Mihaela Velscov prior last name Mihaela Matache.

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