Chaos and complexity research compendium Volume 1 / Franco F. Orsucci and Nicoletta Sala, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orsucci, Franco F.

Sala, Nicoletta.

Series:

Chaos and complexity.

Chaos and complexity research compendium ; v. 1

Chaos and complexity, 2158-8066

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaotic behavior in systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents research on artificial life, cellular automata, chaos theory, cognition, complexity theory, synchronisation, fractals, genetic algorithms, information systems, metaphors, neural networks, non-linear dynamics, parallel computation and synergetics.

Contents:

Intro

CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY RESEARCH COMPENDIUM, VOLUME 1

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Chapter 1: EDITORIAL

A State of the Art

Complexity in Metaphor

Dynamical Systems Theory

Variation and Selection

Our Mission

References

Chapter 2: MEMORIAL: ILYA PRIGOGINE AND HIS LAST WORKS

Chapter 3: ACCELERATION AND ENTROPY: A MACROSCOPIC ANALOGUE OF THE TWIN PARADOX

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Weakly Coupled Gas

3. The Transformation

4. H-function

5. Effects of Velocity Rotations

6. Comparison with the Twin Effect

7. Concluding Remarks

Acknowledgments

Chapter 4: WILLIAM JAMES ON CONSCIOUSNESS, REVISITED

2. The Typology of Causality

3. Level 3 - Macroscopic: The Circular Causality of Intentionality

4. Level 2 - Mesoscopic: The Circular Causality of Reafference

5. Level 1 - Microscopic: Circular Causality among Neuronsand Neural Masses

6. Circular Causality in Awareness

7. Consciousness Viewed as a System Parameter ControllingChaos

8. Conclusion

Chapter 5: THE STRUCTURAL EQUATIONS TECHNIQUE FORTESTING HYPOTHESES IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS:CATASTROPHES, CHAOS, AND RELATED DYNAMICS

Overview

Types and Amount of Data

Probability Density Functions

Structure of Behavioral Measurements

Tips for Using Nonlinear Regression

Testing Catastrophes through Nonlinear Regression

Examples on Record

Chapter 6:SYNCHRONIZATION OF OSCILLATORS IN COMPLEX NETWORKS

Louis M. Pecora1 and Mauricio Barahona2

I. Introduction

II. Formal Development

III. Synchronization in Semirandom Smallworlds (Cycles)

IV. Synchronization in Scale-Free Networks.

V. Hypercube Networks

VI. Conclusions

Chapter 7: CTML:AMARK UP LANGUAGE FOR HOLOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF DOCUMENT BASED KNOWLEDGE

Graziella Tonfoni*

1.1. Introduction

2.1. Documentation Visualization as a Teaching and Learning Opportunity

3.1. On "Transmission Documental Holograms" and "Reflection Documental Holograms"

4. Conclusions

Chapter 8: SUSTAINABILITY AND BIFURCATIONS OF POSITIVE ATTRACTORS

2. Profitability and Compatibility

3. Sustainability

4. An Example

Chapter 9: DYNAMICAL PREDICTION OF CHAOTIC TIME SERIES

2. Dynamical Networks

3. Prediction of Future Evolution

4. Cross Prediction

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgment

Chapter 10: DYNAMICS AS A HEURISTIC FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

2. Metaphors

3. Qualitative

4. Quantitative

Chapter 11: COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA IN LIVING SYSTEMS AND IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS

2. Some Models of Collective Behaviours in Biological Systems

3. A New Approach to Collective Behaviour Descriptionand a Prototypical Example

Conclusion

Chapter 12: CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEBATE ON LINEAR AND NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM

Introduction

Spectral Analysis

Chaos and Noise in the Electroencephalogram

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 13: COMPLEX DYNAMICS OF VISUAL ARTS

2. Baker's Transform in Ψ-Space

3. Aesthetic Unstability Initiates Bifurcation

4. Self-Similarity in Art Space

5. Hierarchy of Complexity

6. Conclusion

Appendix

References.

Chapter 14: THE MYTH OF THE TOWER OF BABYLON AS A SYMBOL OF CREATIVE CHAOS

Chapter 15:CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY IN ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE

Chapter 16: COMPLEXITY AND CHAOS THEORY IN ART

Chapter 17: POLLOCK,MONDRIAN AND NATURE:RECENT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS

1. Pollock's Dripped Complexity

2. Fractal Aesthetics

3. Mondrian's Simplicity

4. Discussion

Chapter 18: VISUAL AND SEMANTIC AMBIGUITY IN ART

Non-Linear Models Perception of Ambiguous Patterns

Visual Ambiguity in Art

Semantic Ambiguity in Plot Development and in Comic Situations

Mixed Ambiguity

Chapter 19:DOES THE COMPLEXITY OF SPACE LIE IN THE COSMOS OR IN CHAOS?

Chapter 20: CRYSTAL AND FLAME/FORM AND PROCESS THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE AMORPHOUS

Background

Bibliography

Chapter 21:COMPLEXITY IN THE MESOAMERICAN ARTISTIC AND ARCHITECTURAL WORKS

Material and Methods

Results and Discussion

Conclusions

Chapter 22: NEW PARADIGM ARCHITECTURE1

Chapter 23:SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY IN URBANSPATIAL DEVELOPMENT

Results

Discussion

Chapter 24:GENERATION OF TEXTURES AND GEOMETRICPSEUDO-URBAN MODELS WITH THE AID OF IFS

2. From IFS to Urban Textures and Geometric Models

3. From Generated Scenes to Real World

4. Conclusions and Future Works

Chapter 25: PSEUDO-URBAN AUTOMATIC PATTERN GENERATION

2. Research Task Context

3. Applications

4. Conclusion

Chapter 26: TONAL STRUCTURE OF MUSIC AND CONTROLLING CHAOS IN THE BRAIN

Abstract.

1. Introduction

2. Control of Chaos in the Brain by Sinusoidal or Periodic PulsedForce

3. Model of Music Tonality

Chapter 27: COLLECTING PATTERNS THAT WORK FOR EVERYTHING

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62100-337-X

OCLC:

923667304