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  title info:
    title: Boundaries of a Complex World
  name:
    name part: Ludu, Andrei.
    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: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 361 p. 158 illus., 112 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: The central theme of this book is the extent to which the structure of the free dynamical boundaries of a system controls the evolution of the system as a whole. Applying three orthogonal types of thinking - mathematical, constructivist and morphological, it illustrates these concepts using applications to selected problems from the social and life sciences, as well as economics. In a broader context, it introduces and reviews some modern mathematical approaches to the science of complex systems. Standard modeling approaches (based on non-linear differential equations, dynamic systems, graph theory, cellular automata, stochastic processes, or information theory) are suitable for studying local problems. However they cannot simultaneously take into account all the different facets and phenomena of a complex system, and new approaches are required to solve the challenging problem of correlations between phenomena at different levels and hierarchies, their self-organization and memory-evolutive aspects, the growth of additional structures and are ultimately required to explain why and how such complex systems can display both robustness and flexibility. This graduate-level text also addresses a broader interdisciplinary audience, keeping the mathematical level essentially uniform throughout the book, and involving only basic elements from calculus, algebra, geometry and systems theory. .
  table of contents: Part I Arts and Nonlinear Systems: `Nonlineart' -- Part II Mathematical Language -- Part III Applications -- Conclusions -- References.
  note: by Andrei Ludu.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Systems biology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Nonlinear Dynamics
  subject:
    topic: Complex Systems
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Systems Biology
  subject:
    topic: Theoretical Ecology/Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Earth System Sciences
  classification: QC174.7-175.36
  classification: 621
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Series in Synergetics
  identifier: 9783662490785
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    record change date: 20171004141419.0
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