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  title info:
    title: Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization
    sub title: The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society
  name:
    name part: Tzafestas, Spyros G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXI, 668 p. 276 illus., 143 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy definitions, energy, branches of thermodynamics, entropy interpretations, arrow of time); information (communication and transmission, modulation-demodulation, coding-decoding, information theory, information technology, information science, information systems); feedback control (history, classical methodologies, modern methodologies); adaptation (definition, mechanisms, measurement, complex adaptive systems, complexity, emergence); and self-organization (definitions/opinions, self-organized criticality, cybernetics, self-organization in complex adaptive systems, examples in nature). In turn, Part II studies the roles, impacts, and applications of the five above-mentioned elements in life and society, namely energy (biochemical energy pathways, energy flows through food chains, evolution of energy resources, energy and economy); information (information in biology, biocomputation, information technology in office automation, power generation/distribution, manufacturing, business, transportation), feedback (temperature, water, sugar and hydrogen ion regulation, autocatalysis, biological modeling, control of hard/technological and soft/managerial systems), adaptation and self-organization (ecosystems, climate change, stock market, knowledge management, man-made self-organized controllers, traffic lights control).
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Life and Human Society: The Five Fundamental Elements -- Chapter 2. Energy I: General Issues -- Chapter 3. Energy II: Thermodynamics -- Chapter 4. Information I: Communication, Transmission, and Information Theory -- Chapter 5. Information II: Science, Technology, and Systems -- Chapter 6. Feedback and Control I: History and Classical Methodologies -- Chapter 7. Feedback and Control II: Modern Methodologies -- Chapter 8. Adaptation, Complexity, and Complex Adaptive Systems -- Chapter 9. Self-Organization -- Chapter 10. Energy in Life and Society -- Chapter 11. Information in Life and Society -- Chapter 12. Feedback Control in Life and Society -- Chapter 13.Adaptation and Self-Organization in Life and Society.
  note: by Spyros G Tzafestas.
  subject:
    topic: Control engineering
  subject:
    topic: Sociophysics
  subject:
    topic: Econophysics
  subject:
    topic: Computational complexity
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Electrical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  subject:
    topic: Control and Systems Theory
  subject:
    topic: Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Energy, general
  subject:
    topic: Communications Engineering, Networks
  subject:
    topic: Bioinformatics
  classification: TJ212-225
  classification: 629.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 90
  identifier: 9783319669991
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66999-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 180103
    record change date: 20191022151629.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-66999-1