The reliability of power supply, defined as the ability to recover a steady-state condition after a sudden disturbance, is crucial for operating power systems. It is usually ensured by controlling voltage and frequency deviations and involves events occurring from a few milliseconds to a few...

We analyze the Bianchi IX dynamics (Mixmaster) in view of its stochastic properties; in the present paper we address either the original approach due to Belinski, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL) as well as a Hamiltonian one relying on the Arnowitt–Deser–Misner (ADM) reduction.

An extremum principle is formulated for the q-entropy in evolving biological systems with variable number of states. Evolution for animals with multiple organs is considered. A variational problem is that of maximum entropy subject to the geometric constraint of the constant thermodynamic...

A stochastic model for the evolution of a cellular network driven by dissipative forces is presented. The model is based on a variational formulation for the dissipated power, from which we obtain an expression for the transition-rate generating function to be used in kinetic Monte Carlo...

We investigate the relaxation behavior of complex systems endowed with a rugged free energy landscape from a variational perspective. We focus first on the dynamics in generic ultrametric spaces and then we specialize our generic results to a coarse-grained description of RNA folding, where...