Complex and adaptive dynamical systems : a primer /
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| Author / Creator: | Gros, Claudius. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Heidelberg ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 2011. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 325 p.) : ill. (some col.) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8896166 |
| Summary: | <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 325 p.) : ill. (some col.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783642047060 3642047068 |