Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems: A Primer - Brossura

Gros, Claudius

Brossura

ISBN 10: 364204705X ISBN 13: 9783642047053

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 2010

Riassunto

We are living in an ever more complex world, an epoch where human actions can accordingly acquire far-reaching potentialities. Complex and adaptive dynamical systems are ubiquitous in the world surrounding us and require us to adapt to new realities and the way of dealing with them.

This primer has been developed with the aim of conveying a wide range of "commons-sense" knowledge in the field of quantitative complex system science at an introductory level, providing an entry point to this both fascinating and vitally important subject. The approach is modular and phenomenology driven. Examples of emerging phenomena of generic importance treated in this book are:

'The small world phenomenon in social and scale-free networks.

Phase transitions and self-organized criticality in adaptive systems.

Life at the edge of chaos and coevolutionary avalanches resulting from the unfolding of all living.

The concept of living dynamical systems and emotional diffusive control within cognitive system theory.

Technical course prerequisites arc a basic knowledge of ordinary and partial differential equations and of statistics. Each chapter comes with exercises and suggestions for further reading û solutions to the exercises are also provided.

This second edition adds a new chapter on quantifying/measuring complexity in given systems, together with an introduction to information theory, has an expanded exercises and solutions section, and contains both revised and additional subsections.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull'autore

Prof. Claudius Gros holds a chair in theoretical physics at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. After completing a PhD in theoretical condensed-matter physics in 1988 at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, Prof. Gros went as Chester-Davies fellow to Indiana University, US, before returning to Germany. His present research interests include Cognitive System Theory and Solid State Physics, with emphasis on high-temperature superconductors.

Dalla quarta di copertina

We are living in an ever more complex world, an epoch where human actions can accordingly acquire far-reaching potentialities. Complex and adaptive dynamical systems are ubiquitous in the world surrounding us and require us to adapt to new realities and the way of dealing with them.This primer has been developed with the aim of conveying a wide range of "commons-sense" knowledge in the field of quantitative complex system science at an introductory level, providing an entry point to this both fascinating and vitally important subject.The approach is modular and phenomenology driven. Examples of emerging phenomena of generic importance treated in this book are:-- The small world phenomenon in social and scale-free networks.-- Phase transitions and self-organized criticality in adaptive systems.-- Life at the edge of chaos and coevolutionary avalanches resulting from the unfolding of all living.-- The concept of living dynamical systems and emotional diffusive control within cognitive system theory.Technical course prerequisites are a basic knowledge of ordinary and partial differential equations and of statistics. Each chapter comes with exercises and suggestions for further reading - solutions to the exercises are also provided.This second edition adds a new chapter on quantifiying/measuring complexity in given systems, together with an introduction to information theory, has an expanded exercises and solutions section, and contains both revised and additional subsections.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 364204705X
• ISBN 13: 9783642047053
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 325
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: CMN Printpool Inh. Mathis Neumann; 0; https://www.also.com/ec/cms5/en_6000/6000/index.jsp; ; Friedrich-Karl-Str. 9; 0; Hamburg; 0; 22391; Germania