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During the last decade, networks with complex topology have become a very powerful approach for understanding large complex systems in various fields of applications ranging from Neuroscience, via Engineering to Sociology and Economy. So far, most studies have concentrated on fixed topology, i.e. were strongly restricted in their applicability. Therefore, we intend to study in this project principles of self-organization in evolving complex networks. To bring these principles closer to various applications, we will in addition investigate the influence of heterogeneity in the network structure, multiscale time delays and stochasticity. These theoretical studies will be intimately connected with the investigation of experimental and natural dynamical networks of increasing complexity starting from lasers, via hybrid networks of neurons to the Earth system. The latter one is a special challenge for the network theory and it will be a focus of this project. In this context, the main topic will be to understand the functioning of the Earth´s subsystems under changing conditions, especially global warming and deforestation in Amazonia.

This project involves a multidisciplinary team of researchers that includes biologists, computer scientists, climatologists, engineers, physicists and mathematicians.


Start of the project: December 1st, 2011

End of the project: November 30th, 2016

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