Overview
- Devoted to emergent properties arising through dynamical processes in various types of natural and artificial systems.
- Presents multidisciplinary approaches for getting representations of complex systems and using different methods to extract emergent structures.
- Special attention is paid to applications of complexity such as geographical systems, dynamical artificial or natural complex networks, transport and traffic flow or decision support systems
- brings together researchers from physics, engineering, biology and chemistry
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts for Complexity Modelling
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Dynamical Artificial or Natural Complex Networks
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Transport and Traffic Flow
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Decision Support Systems
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About this book
Emergence and complexity refer to the appearance of higher-level properties and behaviours of a system that obviously comes from the collective dynamics of that system's components. These properties are not directly deducible from the lower-level motion of that system. Emergent properties are properties of the "whole'' that are not possessed by any of the individual parts making up that whole. Such phenomena exist in various domains and can be described, using complexity concepts and thematic knowledges. This book highlights complexity modelling through dynamical or behavioral systems. The pluridisciplinary purposes, developed along the chapters, are able to design links between a wide-range of fundamental and applicative Sciences. Developing such links - instead of focusing on specific and narrow researches - is characteristic of the Science of Complexity that we try to promote by this contribution.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From System Complexity to Emergent Properties
Editors: M. A. Aziz-Alaoui, C. Bertelle
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02199-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-02198-5Published: 14 August 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26923-3Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-02199-2Published: 07 August 2009
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 370
Number of Illustrations: 110 b/w illustrations
Topics: Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Complex Systems, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems