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COMPLEXUS MUNDI Emergent Patterns in Nature
edited by
Miroslav M Novak (Kingston University, UK)
The dynamics of complex systems can clarify the creation
of structures in Nature. This creation is driven by the collective
interaction of constitutive elements of the system. Such
interactions are frequently nonlinear and are directly responsible
for the lack of prediction in the evolution process. The
self-organization accompanying these processes occurs all around us
and is constantly being rediscovered, under the guise of a new
jargon, in apparently unrelated disciplines.
This volume offers unique perspectives on aspects of fractals and
complexity and, through the examination of complementary techniques,
provides a unifying thread in this multidisciplinary endeavor. Do
nonlinear interactions play a role in the complexity management of
socio-econo-political systems? Is it possible to extract the global
properties of genetic regulatory networks without knowing the
details of individual genes? What can one learn by transplanting the
self-organization effects known in laser processes to the study of
emotions? What can the change in the level of complexity tell us
about the physiological state of the organism? The reader will enjoy
finding the answers to these questions and many more in this book.
Contents:
- Structure of Genetic Regulatory Networks: Evidence for Scale
Free Networks (L S Liebovitch et al.)
- Modelling Fractal Dynamics (B J West)
- Fractional Relaxation of Distributed Order (R Gorenflo & F
Mainardi)
- Fractional Time: Dishomogeneous Poisson Processes vs.
Homogeneous Non-Poisson Processes (P Allegrini et al.)
- Markov Memory in Multifractal Natural Processes (N Papasimakis
& F Pallikari)
- Description of Complex Systems in Terms of Self-Organization
Processes of Prime Integer Relations (V Korotkikh & G
Korotkikh)
- Dynamical Decomposition of Multifractal Time Series as Fractal
Evolution and Long-Term Cycles: Applications to Foreign Currency
Exchange Market (A Turiel & C Perez-Vicente)
- Fractal Sets from Noninvertible Maps (Ch Mira)
- A Generative Construction and Visualization of 3D Fractal
Measures (T Martyn)
- Complexity in Nature and Society: Complexity Management in the
Age of Globalization (K Mainzer)
- Fractals, Complexity and Chaos in Supply Chain Networks (M
Pearson)
- The Effects of Different Competition Rules on the Power-Law
Exponent of High Income Distribution (K Yamamoto et al.)
- Synergetics on Its Way to the Life Sciences (H Haken)
- Complexity, Fractals, Nature and Industrial Design: Some
Connections (N Sala)
- Modelling Pattern Formation Upon Laser-Induced Etching (A Mora
et al.)
- Fractal Properties of Some Machined Surfaces (T R Thomas &
B-G Rosén)
- Fractals, Morphological Spectrum and Complexity of Interfacial
Patterns in Non-Equilibrium Solidification (P K Galenko & D M
Herlach)
- Competition of Doublon Structure in the Phase-Field Model (S
Tokunaga & H Sakaguchi)
- Study of Thermal Field in Composite Materials (P Stefkova et
al.)
- Simulation of Geochemical Banding in Acidization-Precipitation
Experiments In Situ (M Msharrafieh et al.)
- Bulk Mediated Surface Diffusion: Non Markovian and Biased
Behavior (J A Revelli et al)
- Multifractal Formalism for Remote Sensing: A Contribution to
the Description and the Understanding of Meteorological Phenomena
in Satellite Images (J Grazzini et al.)
- The Distance Ratio Fractal Image (X-Z Zhang et al.)
- Iterated Function Systems in Mixed Euclidean and p-Adic Spaces
(B Sing)
- Multifractality of the Multiplicative Autogressive Point
Processes (B Kaulakys et al.)
- Analysis of Geographical Distribution Patterns in Plants Using
Fractals (A Bari et al.)
- Hierarchy of Cellular Automata in Relation to Control of Chaos
or Anticontrol (M Markus et al.)
- Fractal Analysis of the Images Using Wavelet Transformation (P
Jerabkova et al.)
- Clustering Phenomena in the Time Distribution of Lightning (L
Telesca et al.)
- A Cornucopia of Connections: Finding Four Familiar Fractals in
the Tower of Hanoi (D R Camp)
- Monitoring the Depth of Anaesthesia Using Fractal Complexity
Method (W Klonowski et al.)
- The Complex Couplings and Gompertzian Dynamics (P Waliszewski
& J Konarski)
Readership: Academics in
multidisciplinary research, primarily physics, mathematics,
engineering, and life sciences.
360pp |
Pub. date: Jan 2006 |
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