Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 223, 1243-1246 (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02187-9

Editorial

Physicists probing active media: What is the measure of success?

Department of Chemical Engineering and Minerva Center for Nonlinear Physics of Complex Systems, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

^a e-mail: pismen@technion.ac.il

Received: 10 March 2014
Revised: 14 April 2014
Published online: 12 June 2014

Abstract

I present a critical review of this issue integrating the aims of continuous and agent-based theories and experiment.