1990 lectures in complex systems. Proceedings: Lectures, Volume 3
Lynn Nadel, D. L. Stein · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1991
This report contains the following papers: modeling complex systems: Stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, and fokker-planck equations; complexity in fluids; pattern formation in chemical systems: Roles of open reactors; experimental analysis of disordered systems; theory and applications of information-based complexity; some learning tasks from a control perspective; moving a human or robot arm with many degrees of freedom: Issues and ideas; control of tongue movement dynamics; models of somatotopic map organization; sex and evolution; dynamics of neutral excitability; linking structure and function: Information processing in the brain; physiological studies in silico; nonlinear dynamics of neutral delayed feedback; functional self-organization in complex systems; forecasting chaotic computational ecosystems; singularities for complex hyperbolic equations; an overview of the minimum description length principle; equations of motion from data with hidden variables; spectral entropy and self-organization; asynchronous parallel simulated annealing; dynamics of a trapped ion driven by stochastic optical processes; undecidability in the adaptive system; bifurications and chaos in a Paradigm equation for delayed mixed feedback; asymptotic periodicity in one-dimensional maps; and theme and variations: Spin glasses, neutral networks, and prebiotic evolution.