Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization
The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society
Authors: Tzafestas, Spyros G.
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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).
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Life and Human Society: The Five Fundamental Elements
Pages 1-38
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Energy I: General Issues
Pages 39-72
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Energy II: Thermodynamics
Pages 73-155
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Information I: Communication, Transmission, and Information Theory
Pages 157-217
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Information II: Science, Technology, and Systems
Pages 219-276
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization
- Book Subtitle
- The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society
- Authors
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- Spyros G. Tzafestas
- Series Title
- Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
- Series Volume
- 90
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-66999-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-66999-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-66998-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88361-8
- Series ISSN
- 2213-8986
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 668
- Number of Illustrations
- 133 b/w illustrations, 143 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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