The term bow tie refers to a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurrent structures capable of managing a wide range of inputs through a core (or knot) constituted by a limited number of elements.

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  • The term bow tie refers to a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurrent structures capable of managing a wide range of inputs through a core (or knot) constituted by a limited number of elements. In such structures, inputs are conveyed into a sort of funnel, towards a "synthesis" core, where they can be duly organized, processed and managed, and from where, in turn, a variety of outputs, or responses, is propagated. According to Csete and Doyle, bow ties are able to optimally organize fluxes of mass, energy, signals in an overall structure that forcedly deals with a highly fluctuating and "sloppy" environment. In a biological perspective, a bow tie holds and manages a large fan in of stimuli (input), it accounts for a "compressed" core, and it expresses again a large fan out of possible phenotypes, metabolite products, or -more generally- reusable modules. Bow tie architectures have been observed in the structural organization at different scales of living and evolving organisms (i.e. bacterial metabolism network) as well as in technological and dynamical systems (i.e. the Internet). Bow ties seem to be able to mediate trade-offs among robustness and efficiency, at the same time assuring to the system the capability to evolve.
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  • The term bow tie refers to a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurrent structures capable of managing a wide range of inputs through a core (or knot) constituted by a limited number of elements.
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  • Bow tie (biology)
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