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On Self-Organization

An Interdisciplinary Search for a Unifying Principle

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Editors:
  1. R. K. Mishra

    1. All-India-Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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  2. D. Maaß

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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  3. E. Zwierlein

    1. Department of Social Sciences, Economics and Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics (SSSYN, volume 61)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Eduard Zwierlein
    Pages 1-4

  3. Self-Organization in Evolution, Immune Systems, Economics, Neural Nets, and Brains

    • Hans J. Bremermann
    Pages 5-34

  4. On the Evolution of Open Socio-economic Systems

    • Friedrich Hinterberger
    Pages 35-50

  5. Can Synergetics Serve as a Bridge Between the Natural and Social Sciences?

    • Hermann Haken
    Pages 51-65

  6. Modelling Concepts of Synergetics with Application to Transitions Between Totalitarian and Liberal Political Ideologies

    • Wolfgang Weidlich
    Pages 66-79

  7. Self-Organization, Artificial Intelligence and Connectionism

    • Michael M. Richter
    Pages 80-91

  8. Speedup of Self-Organization Through Quantum Mechanical Parallelism

    • Michael Conrad
    Pages 92-108

  9. Living State for Self-Organization A Plea

    • R. K. Mishra
    Pages 109-132

  10. A Model for Stimulated and Co-operative Electron Transfer in Biomolecular Systems

    • L. Pohlmann, H. Tributsch
    Pages 133-142

  11. Self-Organization, Catastrophe Theory and the Problem of Segmentation

    • P. T. Saunders, M. W. Ho
    Pages 143-156

  12. Self-Organization, Entropy and Order

    • P. T. Landsberg
    Pages 157-184

  13. Self-Organization, Valuation and Optimization

    • W. Ebeling
    Pages 185-196

  14. Symbolic Dynamics and the Description of Complexity

    • Bai-lin Hao
    Pages 197-211

  15. Instabilities in Nonlinear Dynamics: Paradigms for Self-Organization

    • R. K. Bullough
    Pages 212-244

  16. Uncertainty Principle, Coherence and Structures

    • Ke-Hsueh Li
    Pages 245-255

  17. Intrinsic Irreversibility of Unstable Dynamical System

    • Ioannis E. Antoniou, Shuichi Tasaki
    Pages 256-269

  18. Self-Organization as a Creative Process Philosophical Aspects

    • V. V. Nalimov
    Pages 270-279

  19. Music and Mind — A Theory of Aesthetic Dynamics

    • Brian D. Josephson, Tethys Carpenter
    Pages 280-287

  20. The Paradigm of Self-Organization and Its Philosophical Foundation

    • Eduard Zwierlein
    Pages 288-298
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Editors and Affiliations

  • All-India-Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    R. K. Mishra

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    D. Maaß

  • Department of Social Sciences, Economics and Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    E. Zwierlein

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On Self-Organization

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Search for a Unifying Principle

  • Editors: R. K. Mishra, D. Maaß, E. Zwierlein

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Synergetics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45726-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-45728-9Published: 07 May 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-45726-5Published: 18 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-7389

  • Series E-ISSN: 2198-333X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 298

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Complex Systems, Communications Engineering, Networks, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems

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