Stable attractor

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A stable attractor in mathematics or biology is an equilibrium state into which a system settles until disrupted by a change in the environment. The system then settles to a new attractor.

In cellular automata a transition from a chaotic phase to a stable attractor is called a solution.

Some mathematical functions may never converge to a solution, but may cycle endlessly in a stable way.

Leibnitz et al. have devised a network routing scheme on a stable attractor model developed to account for the response of Escherichia coli bacteria to variations in nutrient availability. Information about data paths (bandwidth, transit time) is used to determine a stable attractor and to find a new attractor if the network falters. The system is stable in noisy environments. - Commun. Assoc. Comput. Mach. 49, 63 (2006).