Author: Yaneer Bar-yam
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429982976
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
The study of complex systems has attracted a broad range of researchers from many disciplines spanning both the hard and soft sciences. In the Autumn of 1997, 300 of these researchers came together for the First International Conference on Complex Systems. The proceedings of this conference is the first book in the New England Complex Systems Institute Series on Complexity and includes more than 100 presentations and papers on topics like evolution, emergence, complexity, self-organization, scaling, informatics, time series, emergence of mind, and engineering of complex systems.
1990 Lectures In Complex Systems
Author: Lynn Nadel
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429972121
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
An excellent series presenting top lecturers from the best institute for complex systems. Topics covered include: stochastic processes; fluid flow; pattern formation; information-based complexity; motor system problems; and the nature of adaptive change.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429972121
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
An excellent series presenting top lecturers from the best institute for complex systems. Topics covered include: stochastic processes; fluid flow; pattern formation; information-based complexity; motor system problems; and the nature of adaptive change.
Time Series Prediction
Author: Andreas S. Weigend
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042997227X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The book is a summary of a time series forecasting competition that was held a number of years ago. It aims to provide a snapshot of the range of new techniques that are used to study time series, both as a reference for experts and as a guide for novices.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042997227X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The book is a summary of a time series forecasting competition that was held a number of years ago. It aims to provide a snapshot of the range of new techniques that are used to study time series, both as a reference for experts and as a guide for novices.
The Mathematics Of Generalization
Author: David. H Wolpert
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429961073
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This book provides different mathematical frameworks for addressing supervised learning. It is based on a workshop held under the auspices of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos and the Santa Fe Institute in the summer of 1992.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429961073
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This book provides different mathematical frameworks for addressing supervised learning. It is based on a workshop held under the auspices of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos and the Santa Fe Institute in the summer of 1992.
Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest
Author: Joseph A. Tainter
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429972210
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429972210
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, And Social Science
Author: Joshua M. Epstein
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429973039
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is based on a series of lectures on mathematical biology, the essential dynamics of complex and crucially important social systems, and the unifying power of mathematics and nonlinear dynamical systems theory.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429973039
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is based on a series of lectures on mathematical biology, the essential dynamics of complex and crucially important social systems, and the unifying power of mathematics and nonlinear dynamical systems theory.
Viral Regulatory Structures And Their Degeneracy
Author: Gerald Myers
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429982860
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book focuses on the nature, origins, and degeneracy (or redundancy) of viral regulatory elements and on the strategies that enable viruses to adapt to cells, examining experimental findings and models regarding HIV and HPV regulatory mechanisms.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429982860
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book focuses on the nature, origins, and degeneracy (or redundancy) of viral regulatory elements and on the strategies that enable viruses to adapt to cells, examining experimental findings and models regarding HIV and HPV regulatory mechanisms.
Cellular Automata: A Discrete Universe
Author: Andrew Ilachinski
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 981310256X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Cellular automata are a class of spatially and temporally discrete mathematical systems characterized by local interaction and synchronous dynamical evolution. Introduced by the mathematician John von Neumann in the 1950s as simple models of biological self-reproduction, they are prototypical models for complex systems and processes consisting of a large number of simple, homogeneous, locally interacting components. Cellular automata have been the focus of great attention over the years because of their ability to generate a rich spectrum of very complex patterns of behavior out of sets of relatively simple underlying rules. Moreover, they appear to capture many essential features of complex self-organizing cooperative behavior observed in real systems.This book provides a summary of the basic properties of cellular automata, and explores in depth many important cellular-automata-related research areas, including artificial life, chaos, emergence, fractals, nonlinear dynamics, and self-organization. It also presents a broad review of the speculative proposition that cellular automata may eventually prove to be theoretical harbingers of a fundamentally new information-based, discrete physics. Designed to be accessible at the junior/senior undergraduate level and above, the book will be of interest to all students, researchers, and professionals wanting to learn about order, chaos, and the emergence of complexity. It contains an extensive bibliography and provides a listing of cellular automata resources available on the World Wide Web.
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 981310256X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Cellular automata are a class of spatially and temporally discrete mathematical systems characterized by local interaction and synchronous dynamical evolution. Introduced by the mathematician John von Neumann in the 1950s as simple models of biological self-reproduction, they are prototypical models for complex systems and processes consisting of a large number of simple, homogeneous, locally interacting components. Cellular automata have been the focus of great attention over the years because of their ability to generate a rich spectrum of very complex patterns of behavior out of sets of relatively simple underlying rules. Moreover, they appear to capture many essential features of complex self-organizing cooperative behavior observed in real systems.This book provides a summary of the basic properties of cellular automata, and explores in depth many important cellular-automata-related research areas, including artificial life, chaos, emergence, fractals, nonlinear dynamics, and self-organization. It also presents a broad review of the speculative proposition that cellular automata may eventually prove to be theoretical harbingers of a fundamentally new information-based, discrete physics. Designed to be accessible at the junior/senior undergraduate level and above, the book will be of interest to all students, researchers, and professionals wanting to learn about order, chaos, and the emergence of complexity. It contains an extensive bibliography and provides a listing of cellular automata resources available on the World Wide Web.
Pattern Formation In The Physical And Biological Sciences
Author: H. Frederick Nijhout
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429972997
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Lecture Notes Volume represents the first time any of the summer school lectures have been collected and published on a discrete subject rather than grouping all of a season's lectures together. This volume provides a broad survey of current thought on the problem of pattern formation. Spanning six years of summer school lectures, it includes articles which examine the origin and evolution of spatial patterns in physio-chemical and biological systems from a great diversity of theoretical and mechanistic perspectives. In addition, most of these pieces have been updated by their authors and three articles never previously published have been added.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429972997
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This Lecture Notes Volume represents the first time any of the summer school lectures have been collected and published on a discrete subject rather than grouping all of a season's lectures together. This volume provides a broad survey of current thought on the problem of pattern formation. Spanning six years of summer school lectures, it includes articles which examine the origin and evolution of spatial patterns in physio-chemical and biological systems from a great diversity of theoretical and mechanistic perspectives. In addition, most of these pieces have been updated by their authors and three articles never previously published have been added.
Artificial War
Author: Andrew Ilachinski
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812562401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess thecharacteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces arecomposed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and areorganized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order;military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium;military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there isno master voice that dictates the actions of every soldier (i
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789812562401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess thecharacteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces arecomposed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and areorganized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order;military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium;military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there isno master voice that dictates the actions of every soldier (i
Adaptive Individuals In Evolving Populations
Author: Richard K. Belew
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429982534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book is out of a workshop organized to address questions like these. The meeting was sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and held at Sol y Sam- bra in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during July, 1993. It brought together a group of about 20 scientists from the disciplines of biology, psychology, and computer science, all studying interactions between the evolution of populations and individuals’ adaptations in those populations, and all of whom make some use of computational tools in their work.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429982534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book is out of a workshop organized to address questions like these. The meeting was sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and held at Sol y Sam- bra in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during July, 1993. It brought together a group of about 20 scientists from the disciplines of biology, psychology, and computer science, all studying interactions between the evolution of populations and individuals’ adaptations in those populations, and all of whom make some use of computational tools in their work.