We investigate, using mean-field theory and simulation, the effect of asymmetry on the critical behavior and probability density of Bak–Sneppen models. Two kinds of anisotropy are investigated: (i) different numbers of sites to the left and right of the central (minimum) site are updated and...

We report a simple method to accurately determine the threshold and the exponent ν of the Bak–Sneppen (BS) model and also investigate the BS universality class. For the random-neighbor version of the BS model, we find the threshold x∗=0.33332(3), in agreement with the exact result x∗=13...