Artificial Intelligence - General, Mathematical Analysis - General & Miscellaneous, Computer Mathematics, Chaos Theory
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Overview
This book explores the exciting new field of complexity. It features in-depth coverage of important theoretical areas, including fractals, chaos, nonlinear dynamics, artificial life, and self organization. It also provides overviews of complexity in several applied areas, including parallel computation, control systems, neural systems, and ecosystems. Contributors examine some of the properties that best characterize complex systems, including algorithmic richness, nonlinearity, and abundant interactions between components. In this way the book draws themes, especially the ideas of connectivity and natural computation, that reveal deep, underlying similarities among phenomena that have formerly been treated as completely distinct. Researchers in a wide array of fields, including ecology, neuroscience, computer science, and mathematics, will find this volume to be a fascinating collection of ideas.Editorials
From the Publisher
"Overall, the book is a useful collection of introductory summaries of each area of complexity theory." Mathematics Today"[A] complete well-written overview of the current state of the science of complex systems, rich in biological inspired topics that is very worth reading." Ecoscience
Book Details
Published
July 6, 2000
Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2000.
Pages
420
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780521462457