Journal of Statistical Physics; Vol. 34, Nos. 5/6, 1984. p. 1039-1045.
The simplest viewpoint of nonlinear systems far from equilibrium suggests that the state of maximum entropy production is most stable among various possible metastable states under external perturbation for immobile boundaries, and that the shape with maximum increasing rate of entropy production is stabilized for mobile boundaries. Examples of computer simulation are demonstrated for a chemical structure and a growing random pattern.