En 1776, Laplace afirmaba que si se conociera la velocidad y posición de todas las partículas del universo en un momento determinado, se podría conocer su pasado y predecir su futuro con certeza.
This book focuses on the computational analysis of nonlinear vibrations of structural members (beams, plates, panels, shells), where the studied dynamical problems can be reduced to the consideration of one spatial variable and time.
The book Complexity and Control: Towards a Rigorous Behavioral Theory of Complex Dynamical Systems is a graduate-level monographic textbook, intended to be a novel and rigorous contribution to modern Complexity Theory.
This book is the first attempt to give a chaotic dynamics interpretation of processes having to do with category formation and pattern recognition by systems possessing simple hardware e.
Main themes are complete integrability, bi-Hamiltonian structures, hierarchies, impact on string theory, links with quantum groups, random perturbations of deterministic dynamics and the onset of stochasticity/chaos/ in case of particle motion, and the relation between randomness and quantisation.
This conference brought together scientists from diverse disciplines such as biomedical and electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, neurology, neuroscience, psychophysiology and psychology to discuss the application of nonlinear dynamics in the study of brain function.
This is the first conference dedicated to the understanding of the experimental aspects of chaotic behavior in several fields and to addressing the emerging areas of data analysis and applications of nonlinear phenomena.
The 2nd experimental chaos conference provided a multidisciplinary forum for the scientific and engineering communities to present recent developments of and techniques in nonlinear dynamics.
The aim of the symposium was to gather fellow researchers, colleagues and friends of Professor William R Sears, a member of the National Academy of Science and the Academy of Engineering, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
This volume contains papers, contributed by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines, on the application of nonlinear dynamics (chaos theory) in the study of brain function.
This conference focused on the current research and future perspectives on the application of disordered systems theory, fractals and chaotic dynamical systems to chemical engineering problems.
This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the International Conference on Fractal Concepts and the Application of Chaos in Chemical Engineering Problems.
The topics covered in this volume include formation of fractal structures (kinetics of aggregation and gelation, depositions, cluster growth, chemical reactions, fractures, self-organized criticality, etc.
This volume, the third in our unique series on experimental chaos, brings together from a broad range of disciplines, some of the exciting developments of the last two years concerned with the observations, measurements and applications of nonlinear dynamical behaviour.
A tendency exists in management theory and practice today to accept that our linear and deterministic ways of thinking about managerial problems create more problems than they solve.
The 4th Experimental Chaos Conference was a forum for members of the scientific and engineering communities to discuss recent developments in, and techniques of, experimental nonlinear dynamics.
Every reader will find something of interest in this book - from superdiffusion of the ocean surface to fetal heartbeats, from solar wind to the wearing-out of tools, from radioactive contamination to texture analysis, from image rendering to neural developments.
Recent findings in the computer sciences, discrete mathematics, formal logics and metamathematics have opened up a royal road for the investigation of undecidability and randomness in physics.
A system is loosely defined as complex if it is composed of a large number of elements, interacting with each other, and the emergent global dynamics is qualitatively different from the dynamics of each one of the parts.
True deterministic chaos is characterized by unpredictable, apparently random motion in a dynamical system completely described by a deterministic dynamic law, usually a nonlinear differential equation, with no stochastic component.
The book gives the Liapunov background for the analysis and synthesis (design) of dynamic behaviour of general networks which represent a large class of nonlinear systems, predominantly physical, and in particular mechanical.
