Overview
- Presents fundamental concepts, principles, and methodologies
- Includes a large number of color illustrations and real-world examples
- Offers a unique, integrated overview of the five fundamental elements of life and society
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (ISCA, volume 90)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy definitions, energy, branches of thermodynamics, entropy interpretations, arrow of time); information (communication and transmission, modulation–demodulation, coding–decoding, information theory, information technology, information science, information systems); feedback control (history, classical methodologies, modern methodologies); adaptation (definition, mechanisms, measurement, complex adaptive systems, complexity, emergence); and self-organization (definitions/opinions, self-organized criticality, cybernetics, self-organization in complex adaptive systems, examples in nature).
In turn, Part II studies the roles,impacts, and applications of the five above-mentioned elements in life and society, namely energy (biochemical energy pathways, energy flows through food chains, evolution of energy resources, energy and economy); information (information in biology, biocomputation, information technology in office automation, power generation/distribution, manufacturing, business, transportation), feedback (temperature, water, sugar and hydrogen ion regulation, autocatalysis, biological modeling, control of hard/technological and soft/managerial systems), adaptation and self-organization (ecosystems, climate change, stock market, knowledge management, man-made self-organized controllers, traffic lights control).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization
Book Subtitle: The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society
Authors: Spyros G Tzafestas
Series Title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66999-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66998-4Published: 15 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88361-8Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66999-1Published: 03 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2213-8986
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 668
Number of Illustrations: 133 b/w illustrations, 143 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Complexity, Energy, general, Communications Engineering, Networks, Bioinformatics