Abstract Systems that exhibit complex behaviours are often found in a particular dynamical
condition, poised between order and disorder. This observation is at the core of the so-called …

Autocatalytic cycles are rather common in biological systems and they might have played a
major role in the transition from non-living to living systems. Several theoretical models have …

Complex systems often show forms of organisation where a clear-cut hierarchy of levels with
a well-defined direction of information flow cannot be found. In this paper we propose an …

Autocatalytic cycles are rather widespread in nature and in several theoretical models of
catalytic reaction networks their emergence is hypothesized to be inevitable when the network …

In this paper, we study general protocell models aiming to understand the synchronization
phenomenon of genetic material and container productions, a necessary condition to ensure …

Artificial life is largely concerned with systems that exhibit different emergent phenomena;
yet, the identification of emergent structures is frequently a difficult challenge. In this paper we …

The emergence of autocatalytic sets of molecules seems to have played an important role in
the origin of life context. Although the possibility to reproduce this emergence in laboratory …

… Marco Villani, Alessandro Filisetti and Roberto Serra jointly … diffusion rate, Alessandro Filisetti
wrote the simulation code … from Marco Villani, Alessandro Filisetti and Alex Graudenzi and …

Protocells are supposed to have played a key role in the self-organizing processes leading
to the emergence of life. Existing models either (i) describe protocell architecture and …

We describe a method to identify relevant subsets of variables, useful to understand the
organization of a dynamical system. The variables belonging to a relevant subset should have a …