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Selforganizology, 2016, 3(2): 51-58
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Order out of chaos: emergent patterns in soccer matches

Alessandro Ferrarini
Department of Evolutionary and Functional Biology, University of Parma, Via G. Saragat 4, I-43100 Parma, Italy

Received 27 December 2015;Accepted 10 February 2016;Published online 1 June 2016
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Abstract
A soccer match is a very complex, apparently chaotic, human event. However, order clearly emerges from such chaos if we have at hand the right tools to extract pattern configurations. In this work, a new algorithm called Soccer-Decompiler is presented, which is able to analyze soccer matches and extract emerging patterns from apparently chaotic sequences of events. Detecting and filtering the frequencies of events is used by Soccer-Decompiler to discover such patterns. The application of Soccer-Decompiler to a real soccer match shows that order out of chaos in complex human events can be effectively extracted by isolating highly frequent events. An applicative example is given.

Keywords chaotic patterns;complexity;emergent behaviors;frequencies filtering;order;pattern configurations;real life analysis;soccer analysis;Soccer-Decompiler.

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