Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society /

• Main Author: Tzafestas, Spyros G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 90
• Subjects: Control engineering.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Computational complexity.; Energy.; Electrical engineering.; Bioinformatics.; Control and Systems Theory.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Complexity.; Energy, general.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

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...

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.