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Polystochastic Models for Complexity

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Octavian Iordache

    1. Polystochastic, Montreal, Canada

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  • Interdisciplinary valuable reference for engineers, system scientists, mathematicians, entrepreneurs and investors facing complexity challenge
  • Presents theoretical and practical aspects of the Polystochastic methodology incl case studies

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    • Octavian Iordache
    Pages 1-16

  3. Methods

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    Pages 17-61

  4. Physical and Chemical Systems

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    Pages 63-139

  5. Biosystems and Bioinspired Systems

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    Pages 141-211

  6. Systems Sciences and Cognitive Systems

    • Octavian Iordache
    Pages 213-259

  7. Perspectives

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    Pages 261-273

  8. Appendices

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    Pages 275-293

  9. Back Matter

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About this book

This book is devoted to complexity understanding and management, considered as the main source of efficiency and prosperity for the next decades. Divided into six chapters, the book begins with a presentation of basic concepts as complexity, emergence and closure. The second chapter looks to methods and introduces polystochastic models, the wave equation, possibilities and entropy. The third chapter focusing on physical and chemical systems analyzes flow-sheet synthesis, cyclic operations of separation, drug delivery systems and entropy production. Biomimetic systems represent the main objective of the fourth chapter. Case studies refer to bio-inspired calculation methods, to the role of artificial genetic codes, neural networks and neural codes for evolutionary calculus and for evolvable circuits as biomimetic devices. The fifth chapter, taking its inspiration from systems sciences and cognitive sciences looks to engineering design, case base reasoning methods, failure analysis, and multi-agent manufacturing systems. Perspectives and integrative points of view are discussed in the sixth chapter with reference to the classification of sciences, cybernetics and its extensions, and to transdisciplinarity and categorification. Written for: engineers, researchers, and students in chemical, biochemical, computing and systems science engineering, in neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and mathematics

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  • Polystochastic, Montreal, Canada

    Octavian Iordache

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