Fractal Dynamics of Complex Systems in Society and Behavioral Science
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Science, Biophysics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractals; biophysics; geometric transformation; navier stokes equations; mathematical physics; vector calculus
Interests: differential equations; bifurcation and chaos of nonlinear dynamical system; complex networks; numerical methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fractal patterns emerge ubiquitously in nature—arising from purely physical dynamics, such as lightning strikes, as well as from biologically driven collective behaviors, such as those observed in bacterial colonies. In this Special Issue, we focus on the latter – exploring how fractal collective dynamics emerge across scales, from physical systems of interacting particles and swarms to complex societal and intelligent communities. We aim to showcase the richness and depth of insights from physics, biology, cognitive science, and social theory that shed light on how local interactions among agents give rise to fractal (scale-free and/or fractional) global structures and emergent organization.
We welcome theoretical, computational, and experimental/empirical studies that reveal fractalities in behavior, communication, organization, and decision-making. We especially encourage interdisciplinary work linking microscopic rules to macroscopic phenomena in living, synthetic, and hybrid systems.
Dr. Trung V. Phan
Prof. Dr. Mingshu Peng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fractal dynamics
- scale free
- collective behavior
- self-organization
- adaptive and intelligent systems
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