Cybernetics and systems theory

This dissertation contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in the highly interdisciplinary field of colloidal science.

Today it appears that we understand more about the universe than about our interconnected socio-economic world.

This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena.

This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena.

This thesis studies the general heat conduction law, irreversible thermodynamics and the size effect of thermal conductivity exhibited in nanosystems from the perspective of recently developed thermomass theory.

Stochastic optimization problems arise in decision-making problems under uncertainty, and find various applications in economics and finance.

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Diabetes is a disease that is now regarded an epidemic in the world and a sign- icant e?

On this Textbook This book has evolved from the series of lecture notes that I had handed out to the physics students at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria,Germany.

We are living in an ever more complex world, an epoch where human actions can accordingly acquire far-reaching potentialities.

Design of modern digital hardware systems and of complex software systems is almost always connected with parallelism.

This book provides a unified framework that describes how genetic learning can be used to design pattern recognition and learning systems.

The Handbook of Feynman Path Integrals appears just fifty years after Richard Feynman published his pioneering paper in 1948 entitled "e;Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics"e;, in which he introduced his new formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of path integrals.

This book provides an introduction to discrete dynamical systems - a framework of analysis that is commonly used in the fields of biology, demography, ecology, economics, engineering, finance, and physics.

Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scienti?

Many practical control problems are dominated by characteristics such as state, input and operational constraints, alternations between different operating regimes, and the interaction of continuous-time and discrete event systems.

Flow Control and Optimization is increasingly incorporated in the design of engineering devices ranging from aircraft and space vehicles to micro?

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This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena.

This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual developments of cellular automata.

Model integration - the process by which different modelling efforts can be brought together to simulate the target system - is a core technology in the field of Systems Biology.

Fuzzy Days in Dortmund were held for the first time in 1991.

This monograph presents key method to successfully manage the growing complexity of systems where conventional engineering and scientific methodologies and technologies based on learning and adaptability come to their limits and new ways are nowadays required.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Discovery Science, DS'98, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in December 1998.

The objective of the workshops associated with ER 2001, the 20th International Con- rence on Conceptual Modeling, was to give participants the opportunity to present and discuss emerging hot topics, thus adding new perspectives to conceptual modeling.

An important part of the science of complexity is the study of emergent properties arising through dynamical processes in various types of natural and artificial systems.

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This book, written by two well-known scientists, represents an excellent ad- dition to the Springer Series in Synergetics in several ways.

Real-life problems are often quite complicated in form and nature and, for centuries, many different mathematical concepts, ideas and tools have been developed to formulate these problems theoretically and then to solve them either exactly or approximately.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

The first edition of this book has found great interest among scientists and en- gineers dealing with pattern recognition and among psychologists working on psychophysics or Gestalt psychology.

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.

Bringing together over fifty contributions on all aspects of nonlinear and complex dynamics, this impressive topical collection is both a scientific and personal tribute, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, by many outstanding colleagues in the broad fields of research pursued by Prof.

One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself.

This book is a collection of papers contributed by some of the greatest names in the areas of chaos and nonlinear dynamics.

Brain Dynamics serves to introduce graduate students and nonspecialists from various backgrounds to the field of mathematical and computational neurosciences.

Effective evacuation of people from closed spaces is an extremely important topic, since it can save real lives in emergency situations that can be brought about by natural and human made disasters.

One of the most striking features of Coordination Dynamics is its interdisciplinary character.

In the first part, this book analyzes the knowledge discovery process in order to understand the relations between knowledge discovery steps and focusing.

The objective of the workshops associated with the ER2000 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling was to give participants the opportunity to present and discuss emerging, hot topics, thus adding new perspectives to conceptual modeling.

The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge.

The widespread interest this book has found among professors, scientists and stu- dents working in a variety of fields has made a new edition necessary.

In this book for the first time two scientific fields - consensus formation and synchronization of communications - are presented together and examined through their interrelational aspects, of rapidly growing importance.

This book introduces and explores modern developments in the well established field of Hamiltonian dynamical systems.

Synchronization of chaotic systems, a patently nonlinear phenomenon, has emerged as a highly active interdisciplinary research topic at the interface of physics, biology, applied mathematics and engineering sciences.