Methods, models, simulations and approaches towards a general theory of change : proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Systems Science, Marche Polytechnic University, Italy, 14-16 October 2010 / edited by Gianfranco Minati, Mario Abram, Eliano Pessa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Methods, Models, Simulations and Approaches Towards a General Theory of Change (5th : 2010 : Marche Polytechnic University, Italy)

Contributor:

Minati, Gianfranco.

Abram, Mario.

Pessa, Eliano.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

System theory--Congresses.

System theory.

Emergence (Philosophy)--Congresses.

Emergence (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (725 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific disciplinary aspects. Classical attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Preface; Program Committee; Contributing Authors; CONTENTS; Contents; OPENING LECTURE; Approaches to the Origin of Life on Earth Stuart A. Kauffman; 1 Early History; 2 The Template Replicating Era; 3 Early Theories; 4 The RNA WORLD Era; 5 The Lipid First World; 6 Metabolism First Theories; 7 Experimental Work on Collectively Autocatalytic Sets; 8 Peptide Collectively Autocatalytic Sets; 9 RNA Collectively Autocatalytic Sets; 10 Experimental work towards peptide collectively autocatalytic sets

11 What is the status of the theory of ACS as emergent in sufficiently diverse chemical libraries?12 Further theoretical work on Collectively Autocatalytic Sets; 13 Energy, work cycles, power efficiency, and an optimal displacement from thermodynamic equilibrium; 14 Conclusion; References; PLENARY LECTURES; Nonlinear Brain Dynamics in Perception: Three 'Codes' of the Brain Walter J. Freeman; 1 Introduction; 2 The definition of neural mass action; 3 The basic forms taken by neural mass action; 4 Neural mass action is generated from metabolic energy

5 The steady-state flow of neural mass action is expressed in oscillations6 Synchronized oscillations are parsed into bursts like cinematic frames; 7 Frames are textured in the expression of memories and actions; 8 Conclusions; References; Working With New Paradigms and Challenges in Control Theory Giuseppe Conte, Annamaria Perdon; 1 Introduction; 2 Continuous feedback with sampled information; 3 Dynamic environment for home automation systems; 4 Conclusion; References; SELF-ORGANIZATION, CHAOS, COMPLEXITY, COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR

Describing Cell Differentiation with Random Boolean Networks Roberto Serra, Marco Villani, Alessia Barbieri1 Noisy random Boolean networks; 2 A model of cell differentiation; 3 Methodological remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Information as Environment Changings Classical and Quantum Morphic Computation Germano Resconi, Ignazio Licata; 1 Computation, Physics and Geometry: an Unitary Perspective; 2 Morphogenic Systems; 2.1 Conventional and Unconventional Computations; 2.2 Computation in Morphogenic Systems; 3 Geometric image of the projection operator

3.1 Projection operator Q and weights W4 General Definition of the forces and fluxes; 4.1 Invariants; 4.2 The Projection Operator and Lagrangian Function Minimum Condition; 5 The Quantum Connection; 5.1 The Structure of Schrödinger Equation and Fisher information; 5.2 Quantum mechanics interference and geometry; 6 Conclusion; References; Berry-like Phase and Gauge Field in Quantum Computing Angelo Bruno, Antonio Capolupo, Subhash Kak, Gianluca Raimondo, Giuseppe Vitiello; 1 Introduction; 2 Berry-like phase in qubits; 3 Berry-like phase and parallel transport

4 Initialization and gauge potential

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-59372-6

9786613906175

981-4383-33-3

OCLC:

815973086