Bifurcation Analysis: Principles, Applications and Synthesis - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 940096241X ISBN 13: 9789400962415

Casa editrice: Springer, 2011

Riassunto

Bifurcation theory has made a very fast upswing in the last fifteen years. Roughly speaking it generalises to dynamic systems the pos­ sibility of mUltiple solutions, a possibility already recognised in static systems - physical, chemical, social - when operating far from their equilibrium states. It so happened that quite a few staff members of the Erasmus University Rotterdam were thinking along those lines about certain aspects of their disciplines. To have a number of specialists and potential "fans" convene to discuss various aspects of bifurcation­ al thinking, seemed a natural development. The resulting papers were judged to be of interest to a larger public, and as such are logically regrouped in this volume, one in a series of studies resulting from the activities of the Steering Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Although the volume is perhaps multidisciplinary rather than interdisciplinary - the interdisciplinary aspect being only "latent" -, as a "soft" interdisciplinary exercise (the application of formal structures of one discipline to another) it has a right to interdisciplinary existence! This book could not have been published without a generous grant of the University Foundation of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, which allowed the conference to be held and the resulting papers to be published; that generosity is gratefully acknowledged.

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Contenuti

A. Principles.- Self-Organisation in Non-Equilibrium Systems: Towards a Dynamics of Complexity.- Bifurcation Phenomena. A Short Introductory Tutorial with Examples.- Bifurcation and Choice Behaviour in Complex Systems.- B. Applications.- Some Remarks on the Nature of Structure and Metabolism in Living Matter.- The Analysis of Bifurcation Phenomena Associated with the Evolution of Urban Spatial Structure.- Bifurcation Sets — An Application to Urban Economics.- Nerves and Switches in Conflict Control Systems.- Bifurcation as a Model of Description — A Means of Making the Historiography of Philosophy More Historical?.- Space and Order Looked at Critically. Non-Comparability and Procedural Substantivism in History and the Social Sciences.- C. Synthesis.- Symmetry, Bifurcation and Pattern Formation.- Synergetic and Resonance Aspects of Interdisciplinary Research.- Bifurcation: Implications of the Concept for the Study of Organisations.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 940096241X
• ISBN 13: 9789400962415
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Hazewinkel Michiel, Jurkovich R., Pealinck J.H.P.
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