[PDF] Lectures In Complex Systems 1992 Volume 5 eBook

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Page : 688 pages
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Release : 1993
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The Complex Systems Summer School focuses on developing techniques for measuring and analyzing complex behavior, and applying these techniques to the study of a limited number of specific mathematical, physical, and living systems. ne 1992 summer school consisted of approximately twelve short courses together with a number of seminars on selected topics, and took place over a period of four weeks. Topics covered include chaos, computational and algorithmic complexity, neural nets and computational neurobiology, parallel models in cognition, stochastic processes in physical and biological systems and pattern formation in biological systems. An important component of the schools is the publication of the complete set of lecture notes in book form, the purpose of which is to provide students and researchers in the general scientific community with an overview of the emerging concepts of complex behavior, and their applications to specific systems.

Author : Lynn Nadel
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 1995-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780201483680

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For six years the Complex Systems Summer School has contributed greatly to education and research into complex systems. 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems presents a wide array of topics in the field, including condensed matter dynamics, self-organized criticality, complex fluids, evolution, time series analysis, and neural models of perception. This book is a compilation of many of the lectures and contributions of the 1993 Complex Systems Summer School. The collective volumes in the Series ( Lectures in the Sciences of Complexity, 1989 Lectures in the Sciences of Complexity, 1990 Lectures in Complex Systems, 1991 Lectures in Complex Systems, 1992 Lectures in Complex Systems and now 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems ) comprise a growing, broad, interdisciplinary review of the many sciences of complexity—a review unavailable elsewhere.Lectures included in This Volume:S.N. Coopersmith: Complex Structures and Dynamics in Condensed Matter SystemsC.A. MacKen and P.F. Stadler: Evolution of Fitness LandscapesB.W. Mel: Information Processing in Dendritic TreesB.K. Sawhill: Self-Organized Criticality and Complexity TheoryO. Aporns: Neural Models of Perception and BehaviorR. Tagg: Instabilities and the Origin of Complexity in Fluid FlowsK. Thearling: Massively Parallel Architectures and Algorithms for Time Series Analysis

Author : Christopher G. Langton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262621113

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In addition to presenting the latest work in the field, Artificial Life V includes a retrospective and prospective look at both artificial and natural life with the aim of refining the methods and approaches discovered so far into viable, practical tools for the pursuit of science and engineering goals. May 16-18, 1996 · Nara, Japan Despite all the successes in computer engineering, adaptive computation, bottom-up AI, and robotics, Artificial Life must not become simply a one-way bridge, borrowing biological principles to enhance our engineering efforts in the construction of life-as-it-could-be. We must ensure that we give back to biology in kind, by developing tools and methods that will be of real value in the effort to understand life-as-it-is. Artificial Life V marks a decade since Christopher Langton organized the first workshop on artificial life--a decade characterized by the exploration of new possibilities and techniques as researchers have sought to understand, through synthetic experiments, the organizing principles underlying the dynamics (usually the nonlinear dynamics) of living systems. In addition to presenting the latest work in the field, Artificial Life V includes a retrospective and prospective look at both artificial and natural life with the aim of refining the methods and approaches discovered so far into viable, practical tools for the pursuit of science and engineering goals. Complex Adaptive Systems series

Author : J Hogan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1420033832

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Nonlinear dynamics has been successful in explaining complicated phenomena in well-defined low-dimensional systems. Now it is time to focus on real-life problems that are high-dimensional or ill-defined, for example, due to delay, spatial extent, stochasticity, or the limited nature of available data. How can one understand the dynamics of such sys

Author : Paul Cilliers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134743297

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In Complexity and Postmodernism, Paul Cilliers explores the idea of complexity in the light of contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science. Cilliers offers us a unique approach to understanding complexity and computational theory by integrating postmodern theory (like that of Derrida and Lyotard) into his discussion. Complexity and Postmodernism is an exciting and an original book that should be read by anyone interested in gaining a fresh understanding of complexity, postmodernism and connectionism.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1101200324

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A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature, and Enlightenment Now. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Updated with a new afterword One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

Author : Lynn Nadel
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 1991-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780201525755

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This book reflects the topics discussed in the 1990 Complex Systems Summer School, covering both the nature and substance of the lectures and seminars that deal with experimental results and numerical simulations on sand piles, avalanches, and self-organized criticality.

Author : Yaneer Bar-yam
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0429971893

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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.

Author : Arthur T. Winfree
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1475734840

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Dealing with dynamics of processes that repeat themselves regularly, this revised and updated edition extends the thread from 1980 to the present day, concentrating on areas of interest where there will be much activity in the future. This involves going through spatial biochemical, electrophysiological, and organismic dynamical systems and patterns that were discovered by pursuing the theme of phase singularities introduced in the original book. In particular the work on excitability in cell membranes will be thoroughly updated as will the references throughout the book.