Dynamical critical systems for information processing: a preliminary study

A general and inspiring hypothesis states that organizationsand systems subject to evolutionary pressure tend to reach a particularstate, often called critical: in particular, in presence of changing environ-ments the critical systems could have signicant advantages with respectto ordered or chaotic systems. From the previous consideration naturallyfollows the question if also articial systems could take advantage fromoperating in critical conditions, with respect to more ordered (and lessexible) structures. In order to study this topic some methodological is-sues have to be solved; this work shows the rst results of the proposedresearch approach.