Chaos, information processing and paradoxical games : the legacy of John S Nicolis / editors, Gregoire Nicolis, Vasileios Basios.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nicolis, J. (John), 1934- honouree.

Nicolis, G., 1939- editor.

Basios, Vasileios, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaotic behavior in systems.

Human information processing.

Nicolis, J. (John), 1934-.

Nicolis, J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides a self-contained survey of the mechanisms presiding information processing and communication. The main thesis is that chaos and complexity are the basic ingredients allowing systems composed of interesting subunits to generate and process information and communicate in a meaningful way. Emphasis is placed on communication in the form of games and on the related issue of decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Biological, cognitive, physical, engineering and societal systems are approached from a unifying point of view, both analytically and by numerical simulation, using the methods of nonlinear dynamics and probability theory. Epistemological issues in connection with incompleteness and self-reference are also addressed.

Contents:

Bohmian trajectories in the scattering problem / G. Contopoulos, N. Delis and C. Efthymiopoulos

Scaling properties of the Lorenz system and dissipative Nambu 11004034mechanics / M. Axenides and E. Floratos

Extreme events in nonlinear lattices / G.P. Tsironis, N. Lazarides, A. Maluckov and Lj. Hadžievski

Coarse graining appraoch to chaos / D. Mac Kernan

Multifractal chaos : a hierarchical approach / T. Xing , J. Wojcik , M.A. Zaks and A. Shilnikov

Quantum theory of Jaynes' principle, Bayes' theorem, and information / H. Haken

Information processing with Page

Wootters states / S. Nicolis

Stochastic resonance and information processing / C. Nicolis

Selforganisation of symbols and information / W. Ebeling and R. Feistel

Historical contingency in controlled evolution

Long-range order and fractality in the structure and organization of eukaryotic genomes / D. Polychronopoulos, G. Tsiagkas, L. Athanasopoulou, D. Sellis and Y. Almirantis

Towards resolving the enigma of HOX gene collinearity / S. Papageorgiou

Thermodynamics of cerebral cortex assayed by measures of mass action / W.J. Freeman

Describing the neuron axons network of the human brain by continuous flow models / J. Hizanidis, P. Katsaloulis, D.A. Verganelakis and A. Provata

Cognition and language : from apprehension to judgement

quantum conjectures / F.T. Arecchi

Dynamical systems++ for a theory of biological system / K. Kaneko

Logic dynamics for deductive inference its stability and neural basis / I. Tsuda

Microscopic approach to species coexistence based on evolutionary game dynamics / C. Grebogi, Y.-Ch. Lai, and Wen-Xu Wang

Phase transitions in models of bird flocking / H. Christodoulidi , K. van der Weele, Ch.G. Antonopoulos and T. Bountis

Animal construction as a free boundary problem : evidence of fractal scaling laws / S.C. Nicolis

Extended self organised criticality in asynchronously tuned cellular automata / Y.-P. Gunji

A posthumous dialogue with John Nicolis : IERU / O.E. Rössler.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

981-4602-13-2

OCLC:

903971046