@article{Stanley2000,
title={Scale invariance and universality: organizing principles in complex systems},
author={Stanley, HE, Amaral, LAN, Gopikrishnan, P, Ivanov, PC, Keitt, TH, Plerou, V},
abstract={This paper is a brief summary of a talk that was designed to address the question of whether two of the pillars of the field of phase transitions and critical phenomena - scale invariance and universally - can be useful in guiding research on a broad class of complex phenomena. We shall see that while scale invariance has been tested for many years, universality is relatively more rarely discussed. In particular, we shall develop a heuristic argument that serves to make more plausible the universality hypothesis in both thermal critical phenomena and percolation phenomena, and suggest that this argument could be developed into a possible coherent approach to understanding the ubiquity of scale invariance and universality in a wide range of complex systems. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
journal={Physica A},
volume={281},
doi={10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00195-3},
year={2000},
month={JUN},
day={15},
pages={60--68},
}