文档介绍：plexity
plexity is a publication program, cutting across all traditional dis-
ciplines of sciences as well as engineering, economics, medicine, psychology and
computer sciences, which is aimed at researchers, students and practitioners work-
ing in the field plex systems. Complex Systems are systems prise
many interacting parts with the ability to generate a new quality of macroscopic
collective behavior through anization, ., the spontaneous formation of
temporal, spatial or functional structures. This recognition, that the collective be-
havior of the whole system cannot be simply inferred from the understanding of
the behavior of the ponents, has led to various new concepts and
sophisticated tools plexity. The main concepts and tools – with someti-
mes overlapping contents and methodologies – are the theories of aniza-
tion, complex systems, synergetics, dynamical systems, turbulence, catastrophes,
instabilities, nonlinearity, stochastic processes, chaos, works, cellular au-
tomata, adaptive systems, and ic algorithms.
The topics treated within plexity are as diverse as lasers or
fluids in physics, machine cutting phenomena of workpieces or electric circuits
with feedback in engineering, growth of crystals or pattern formation in chemistry,
morphogenesis in biology, brain function in neurology, behavior of stock exchange
rates in economics, or the formation of public opinion in sociology. All these see-
mingly quite different kinds of structure formation have a number of important
features and underlying structures mon. These deep structural similarities
can be exploited to transfer analytical methods and understanding from one fi eld
to another. The plexity program therefore seeks to foster cross-fer-
tilization between the disciplines and a dialogue between theoreticians and expe-
rimentalists for a deeper understanding of the general structure and behavior of
complex systems.
The program consists of individual books, books