Information and Self-Organization A Macroscopic Approach to Complex Systems /

• Main Author: Haken, Hermann (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Edition: Third Enlarged Edition.
• Series: Springer Series in Synergetics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Neurosciences.; Data structures (Computer science).; System theory.; Condensed matter.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Systems Theory, Control.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.

This book presents the concepts needed to deal with self-organizing complex systems from a unifying point of view that uses macroscopic data. The various meanings of the concept "information" are discussed and a general formulation of the maximum information (entropy) principle is used. Wi...