文档介绍：plexity
plexity is an interdisciplinary program publishing the best research and
academic-level teaching on both fundamental and applied aspects plex systems—
cutting across all traditional disciplines of the natural and life sciences, engineering, eco-
nomics, medicine, neuroscience, social puter science.
Complex Systems are systems prise many interacting parts with the ability to
generate a new quality of macroscopic collective behavior, the manifestations of which are
the spontaneous formation of distinctive temporal, spatial or functional structures. Models
of such systems can be essfully mapped onto quite diverse ‘‘real-life’’ situations like the
climate, the coherent emission of light from lasers, chemical reaction-diffusion systems,
biological works, the dynamics of stock markets and of the , earthquake
statistics and prediction, freeway traffic, the human brain, or the formation of opinions in
social systems, to name just some of the popular applications.
Although their scope and methodologies overlap somewhat, one can distinguish the
following main concepts and tools: anization, nonlinear dynamics, synergetics,
turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic processes, chaos,
graphs works, cellular automata, adaptive systems, ic algorithms and
computational intelligence.
The two major book publication platforms of the plexity program are the
monograph series ‘‘plex Systems’’ focusing on the various applications
plexity, and the ‘‘Springer Series in Synergetics’’, which is devoted to the quanti-
tative theoretical and methodological foundations. In addition to the books in these two core
series, the program also incorporates individual titles ranging from textbooks to major
reference works.
Editorial and Programme Advisory Board
Henry Abarbanel, Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, USA
Dan Braha, New plex Systems Institute, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
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