@article{eprints1184,
           title = {Quenched disorder, memory, and self-organization},
            year = {1996},
           month = {January},
          volume = {53},
           pages = {R13--R16},
          number = {1},
         journal = {Physical Review E},
       publisher = {American Physical Society},
          author = {Matteo Marsili and Guido Caldarelli and Michele Vendruscolo},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1184/},
        abstract = {We use a stochastic description of models with a dynamic in quenched disorder to analyze the mechanism of their self-organization to a critical state in terms of memory effects. We introduce a framework to characterize both memory effects and avalanche events which suggests that self-organization can result in general from memory. This issue is settled by the introduction and the analysis of a model that contains explicitly memory and generalizes the corresponding dynamics in quenched disorder. The model displays a rich behavior and self-organized critical properties for a whole range of the exponent that tunes the strength of memory.},
        keywords = {PACS: 02.50.-r, 05.40.+}
}