Modeling Multi-Level Systems

• Main Author: Iordache, Octavian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems, 70
• Subjects: Engineering.; Statistical physics.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; Nonlinear Dynamics.; Computational Intelligence.

This book is devoted to modeling of multi-level complex systems, a challenging domain for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs, confronted with the transition from learning and adaptability to evolvability and autonomy for technologies, devices and problem solving methods. Chapter 1 introduces t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Methodological Resources
• Conventional PSM frames
• New PSM frames.-Mixing in chemical reactors
• Compartmental systems
• Turbulent mixing
• Entropy
• Formal concept analysis
• Existential graphs
• Evolvable designs of experiments
• Autonomous systems perspective.