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  title info:
    title: Complex and Adaptive Dynamical Systems
    sub title: A Primer
  name:
    name part: Gros, Claudius.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 2.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 326 p. 121 illus., 30 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: We are living in an ever more complex world, an epoch where human actions can accordingly acquire far-reaching potentialities. Complex and adaptive dynamical systems are ubiquitous in the world surrounding us and require us to adapt to new realities and the way of dealing with them. This primer has been developed with the aim of conveying a wide range of "commons-sense" knowledge in the field of quantitative complex system science at an introductory level, providing an entry point to this both fascinating and vitally important subject. The approach is modular and phenomenology driven. Examples of emerging phenomena of generic importance treated in this book are: -- The small world phenomenon in social and scale-free networks. -- Phase transitions and self-organized criticality in adaptive systems. -- Life at the edge of chaos and coevolutionary avalanches resulting from the unfolding of all living. -- The concept of living dynamical systems and emotional diffusive control within cognitive system theory. Technical course prerequisites are a basic knowledge of ordinary and partial differential equations and of statistics. Each chapter comes with exercises and suggestions for further reading - solutions to the exercises are also provided. This second edition adds a new chapter on quantifiying/measuring complexity in given systems, together with an introduction to information theory, has an expanded exercises and solutions section, and contains both revised and additional subsections.
  table of contents: About this book -- Graph Theory and Small-World Networks -- Chaos, Bifurcations and Diffusion -- Random Boolean Networks -- Cellular Automata and Self-Organized Criticality -- Statistical Modeling of Darwinian Evolution -- Synchronization Phenomena -- Elements of Cognitive System Theory -- Solutions -- Index.
  note: by Claudius Gros.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Dynamical systems
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
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      title: Springer eBooks
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