Cybernetics and systems theory

This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes.

This book presents a multi-disciplinary investigation into extortion rackets with a particular focus on the structures of criminal organisations and their collapse, societal processes in which extortion rackets strive and fail and the impacts of bottom-up and top-down ways of fighting extortion racketeering.

This book provides an introduction to the topological classification of smooth structurally stable diffeomorphisms on closed orientable 2- and  3-manifolds.

This book offers its readers a detailed overview of the synthesis of switched systems, with a focus on switching stabilization and intelligent control.

This book spotlights how women leaders behave in chaotic environments and features examples of women who have been key figures in determining complex socio-economic outcomes throughout history.

This book is an introduction to the theory, practice, and implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method, a powerful computational fluid dynamics method that is steadily gaining attention due to its simplicity, scalability, extensibility, and simple handling of complex geometries.

This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems.

This book, provides a general introduction to the ideas and methods of statistical mechanics with the principal aim of meeting the needs of Master's students in chemical, mechanical, and materials science engineering.

This book discusses recent advances in the estimation and control of networked systems with unacknowledged packet losses: systems usually known as user-datagram-protocol-like.

Our world is composed of systems within systems-the machines we build, the information we share, the organizations we form, and elements of nature that surround us.

Systems are everywhere and we are surrounded by them.

This volume results from the "e;Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015.

This first monograph of its kind introduces the reader to fundamental definitions, key concepts and case studies addressing the following issues of rapidly growing relevance for online communities: What are emotions?

This monograph investigates violations of statistical stability of physical events, variables, and processes and develops a new physical-mathematical theory taking into consideration such violations - the theory of hyper-random phenomena.

This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research.

This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series.

Focussing on the mathematics related to the recent proof of ergodicity of the (Weil-Petersson) geodesic flow on a nonpositively curved space whose points are negatively curved metrics on surfaces, this book provides a broad introduction to an important current area of research.

This book examines discrete dynamical systems with memory-nonlinear systems that exist extensively in biological organisms and financial and economic organizations, and time-delay systems that can be discretized into the memorized, discrete dynamical systems.

This book for the first time examines periodic motions to chaos in time-delay systems, which exist extensively in engineering.

This book offers a short and concise introduction to the many facets of chaos theory.

Do you know how banking and money will look like in the new digital age?

The book is the second volume of a collection of contributions devoted to analytical, numerical and experimental techniques of dynamical systems, presented at the international conference "e;Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications,"e; held in Lodz, Poland on December 7-10, 2015.

The book is a collection of contributions devoted to analytical, numerical and experimental techniques of dynamical systems, presented at the international conference "e;Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications,"e; held in Lodz, Poland on December 7-10, 2015.

This monograph bridges the gap between the nonlinear predictor as a concept and as a practical tool, presenting a complete theory of the application of predictor feedback to time-invariant, uncertain systems with constant input delays and/or measurement delays.

This course-tested primer provides graduate students and non-specialists with a basic understanding of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and demonstrates their wide range of applications to interdisciplinary topics in the field of complex system sciences, including selected aspects of theoretical modeling in biology and the social sciences.

This monograph is a first in the world to present three approaches for stability analysis of solutions of dynamic equations.

This book provides an introductory yet rigorous treatment of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle and its application to optimal control problems when simple and complex constraints act on state and control variables, the two classes of variable in such problems.

This book focuses on recent research in modern optimization and its implications in control and data analysis.

This book focuses on methods that relate, in one form or another, to the "e;small-gain theorem"e;.

This thesis reveals the utility of pursuing a statistical physics approach in the description of wave interactions in multimode optical systems.

This thesis explores several interdisciplinary topics at the border of theoretical physics and biology, presenting results that demonstrate the power of methods from statistical physics when applied to neighbouring disciplines.

This book presents the fundamentals of irreversible thermodynamics for nonlinear transport processes in gases and liquids, as well as for generalized hydrodynamics extending the classical hydrodynamics of Navier, Stokes, Fourier, and Fick.

This book presents the fundamentals of irreversible thermodynamics for nonlinear transport processes in gases and liquids, as well as for generalized hydrodynamics extending the classical hydrodynamics of Navier, Stokes, Fourier, and Fick.

This volume sheds light on the current state of complex networks and nonlinear dynamics applied to the understanding of economic and social phenomena ranging from geographical economics to macroeconomics and finance, and its purpose is to give readers an overview of several interesting topics for research at an intermediate level.

This monograph presents new algorithms for formation control of multi-agent systems (MAS) based on principles of continuum mechanics.

Focused on recent advances, this book covers theoretical foundations as well as various applications.

The papers collected in this volume focus on new perspectives on individuals, society, and science, specifically in the field of socio-economic systems.

Ring polymers are one of the last big mysteries in polymer physics, and this thesis tackles the problem of describing their behaviour when interacting in dense solutions and with complex environments and reports key findings that help shed light on these complex issues.

This work proposes that Carl Menger's Subjective Theory of Value (STV), and its subsequent elaboration by Ludwig von Mises as Praxeology, provides a useful alternative to more common methods in the study of action and social phenomena, and more specifically, to leadership in complex social systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, HPCSE 2015, held in Solan, Czech Republic, in May 2015.

Scheck's textbook starts with a concise introduction to classical thermodynamics, including geometrical aspects.

This edited volume, with contributions by area experts, offers discussions on a range of evolving topics in economics and social development.

This brief broadens readers' understanding of stochastic control by highlighting recent advances in the design of optimal control for Markov jump linear systems (MJLS).

This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them.

These proceedings present the results of the Eleventh International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX which took place in a picturesque Brunow Palace in Poland from 27th June to 1st July, 2016.

This book has developed over the past fifteen years from a modern course on stochastic chemical kinetics for graduate students in physics, chemistry and biology.

This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world.

Like the first Abel Symposium, held in 2004, the Abel Symposium 2015 focused on operator algebras.

This book focuses on the approximation of nonlinear equations using iterative methods.

This book, featuring a truly interdisciplinary approach, provides an overview of cutting-edge mathematical theories and techniques that promise to play a central role in climate science.