عنوان

From cells to societies :

(Number (ISBN

3662050625

(Number (ISBN

9783662050620

Number

b566994

Title Proper

From cells to societies :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

models of complex coherent action

First Statement of Responsibility

A.S. Mikhailov, V. Calenbuhr.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berlin ; New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer, [

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002] ©2002

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(x, 299 pages) : illustrations

Series Title

Springer series in synergetics (Unnumbered)

Text of Note

The Games of Life --; Excitable Media --; Collective Amoebae --; Fish Schools --; Insect Societies --; Active Motion --; Elementary Mechanisms of Self-Motion --; Self-Motion in External Fields --; Hydrodynamics of Active Fluids --; Traffic Flows --; Ridden by the Noise --; Demons and Ratchets --; Navigation in Fluctuating Fields --; Long Tails in Probability Distributions --; Noise as a Resource --; Dynamics with Delays and Expectations --; The Age Dimension --; Demographic Waves --; A Model of the Market Crash --; Mutual Synchronization --; Interacting Clocks --; The Synchronization Transition --; The Influence of Noise --; Noise-Induced Breakdown of Coherent Active Motion --; Synchronous Chaos --; Dynamical Clustering --; Logistic Maps --; Rossler Oscillators --; Neural Networks --; Protein Machines --; Hierarchical Organization --; Hierarchies --; The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model --; Replica-Symmetry Breaking in Dynamical Glasses --; Fluid Turbulence --; Hierarchically Structured Swarms --; Dynamics and Evolution of Networks --; Societies --; Properties of Graphs --; Clustering and Synchronization in Dynamical Networks --; Evolution of Graphs.

Text of Note

This book shows how, by rather simple models, we can gain remarkable insights into the behavior of complex systems. It is devoted to the discussion of functional self-organization in large populations of interacting active elements. The possible forms of self-organization in such systems range from coherent collective motions in the physical coordinate space to the mutual synchronization of internal dynamics, the development of coherently operating groups, the rise of hierarchical structures, and the emergence of dynamical networks. Such processes play an important role in biological and social phenomena. The authors have chosen a series of models from physics, biochemistry, biology, sociology and economics, and will systematically discuss their general properties.The book addresses researchers and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology and the social sciences.--Jacket.

Models, Biological.

Nonlinear Dynamics.

Self-organizing systems.

A.S. Mikhailov, V. Calenbuhr.

A S Mikhailov

V Calenbuhr

Electronic name

[Book]

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