Self-Organised Criticality (SOC) is a concept developed over the last decade from dynamic systems analysis that aims to investigate the transition trajectories of evolutionary systems. The main emphasis in SOC is on the analysis of the impact of slow exogenous forces in combination with strong...

This study reviews insights and reflectionsoriginating from the recently developed concept of self-organized criticality(SOC), which is based on the idea that complex behavior can developspontaneously in various many-body systems whose dynamics may vary abruptly andunexpectedly. First, some...