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, economics, medicine, neuroscience, social puter science.
Complex Systems are systems prise many interacting parts with the abil-
ity 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 traf-
fic, 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, syn-
ergetics, turbulence, dynamical systems, catastrophes, instabilities, stochastic pro-
cesses, chaos, graphs works, cellular automata, adaptive systems, ic al-
gorithms putational intelligence.
The two major book publication platforms of the plexity program
are the monograph series “plex Systems” focusing on the vari-
ous applications plexity, and the “Springer Series in Synergetics”, which is
devoted to the quantitative 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.
plex Systems
Founding Editor: . Scott Kelso
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