Principles of Quantitative Living Systems Science

• Main Author: Simms, James R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, 13
• Subjects: Mathematics.; System theory.; Biomathematics.; Systems Theory, Control.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

In 1978, when the book Living Systems was published, it contained the prediction that the sciences that were concerned with the biological and social sciences would, in the future, be stated as rigorously as the “hard sciences” that study such nonliving phenomena as temperature, distance, and the in...

Table of Contents:

• Quantification of Behavior
• Capacity to Direct Energy
• Behavioral Information
• Fundamental Equations for the Behaviors of Animals
• Living Systems Science Evolution
• Autonomous Animal Behavior
• Nonvolitional Behaviors
• Volitional Behavior
• Total Behavior of Individuals
• Summary And Findings.