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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 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 three major book publication platforms of the plexity program are
the monograph series “plex Systems” focusing on the various
applications plexity, the “Springer Series in Synergetics”, which is devoted to
the quantitative theoretical and methodological foundations, and the “SpringerBriefs in
Complexity” which are concise and topical working reports, case-studies, surveys,
essays and lecture notes of relevance to the field. In addition to the books in these two
core series, the program also incorporates individual titles ranging from textbooks to
major reference works.
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Juval Portugali • Han Meyer • Egbert Stolk •
Ekim Tan
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