Ebook: Complexity and Diversity

Nonlinear complex open systems show great diversity in the process of self-organization, and that diversity increases as complexity increases. The measurement of complexity and the origins of the diversity of such complex systems are the focus of interdisciplinary studies extending across a wide range of scientific disciplines that include applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, ecology, sociology, and economics. Previous investigations have concentrated either on complexity or on diversity, but not both. This volume makes clear the relation between complexity and diversity with examples drawn from various disciplines. Compiles here are presentations from the Complexity and Diversity workshop held in Fugue, Japan, in August 1996. The contributions are the results of research in mathematical systems, physical systems, living systems, and social systems, and are contained in the four corresponding sections of the book. Mathematical expressions for the theory of complexity as a fundamental method along with realistic examples for application of systematic methods provide the reader with ready access to the latest topics in complex systems.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages II-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Complexity and Diversity — An Introduction....Pages 3-9
Synergetics and Complexity: Emerging New Science and Civilization at the Turn of the Century....Pages 10-29
The set of boundary points as a complex system....Pages 30-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
On the Complexity of Logic-Dynamics in Brain....Pages 37-45
Emergence of Recursivity through Isologous Diversification....Pages 46-51
Pattern Recalling Property of Neural Network Modules Integrated by Chaos....Pages 52-54
A complexity measure of the Internet....Pages 55-57
Complexity and Diversity for the Rule Changeable Elementary Cellular Automata....Pages 58-60
Generation of Relations between Individuals Using a Stochastic Automaton and the Theory of Change of Attitudes....Pages 61-63
Dynamic Learning and Retrieving Scheme Based on Chaotic Neuron Model....Pages 64-66
Genetic evolution of the subsumption architecture which controls an autonomous mobile robot....Pages 67-69
On the generation and dissipation of coherent structure in two-dimensional vortices....Pages 70-72
Dynamics of two coupled inverted pendulums....Pages 73-75
Hamiltonian dynamics and statistics of relaxations....Pages 76-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Complexity in a Molecular String: Hierarchical Structure as Is Exemplified in a DNA Chain....Pages 81-90
Fractal distributions — from the real world to the information world....Pages 91-98
Diversity and Complexity of Patterns in Nonequilibrium Systems — Pattern Formation in Electrohydrodynamic Instability —....Pages 99-107
Dynamic Scaling of etched surface roughness of LaSrGaO4 single crystal by Atomic Force Microscopy....Pages 108-110
Scaling behavior of the surface roughness in the crystallization process :transformation of polycrystalline Si from amorphous Si....Pages 111-113
Front Matter....Pages 114-116
Al’tshuler-Aronov-Spivak Effect and Quantum Chaos in Ballistic Systems....Pages 79-79
Bifurcation and dynamical response of current oscillations in semiconductor with NDC....Pages 117-119
Intermittency in the Coupled Chaos Oscillators....Pages 120-122
Soft-Mode Turbulence in Electrohydrodynamic Convection in Homeotropic System of Nematics....Pages 123-125
Temporal Order and Dynamical critical phenomena in Sliding Charge-Density Wave Systems....Pages 126-128
Competing Instabilities and Localized Traveling Wave in Binary Fluid Mixture....Pages 129-131
Experimental Evidence of Marangoni Convection Rolls in Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction....Pages 132-134
Localized Traveling Wave Front in Binary Fluid Convection....Pages 135-137
Analysis of concentration of atmospheric radon daughters as a time series data....Pages 138-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-143
Synchronization in the Brain — Unification of Information as the Emergence —....Pages 145-145
The developing Xenopus embryo as a complex system: Maternal and zygotic contribution of gene products in nucleo-cytoplasmic and cell-to-cell interactions....Pages 147-153
Universal feature of long-range correlations in DNA sequence : The intron-structure in a single gene....Pages 154-162
Simulation of the oscillatory potential propagation in the slug’s brain with an array of nonlinear oscillators....Pages 163-165
Autonomous Control of Heartbeat as Entrainment between Mechanical Environment and Electrical Rhythms....Pages 166-168
Chaotic behavior of the Hodgikin-Huxley equations under small random noise....Pages 169-171
A Reduction Model for Breaking Phase-Order Preservation in Globally Coupled Oscillators....Pages 172-174
Critical phenomena in lattice Lotka-Volterra model: Parity law and selfstructuring extinction pattern....Pages 175-177
Front Matter....Pages 178-180
Complexity and Economics of Institutions....Pages 181-181
Forecasting and Stabilizing Economic Fluctuations Using Radial Basis Function Networks....Pages 183-192
Parallel Processing Economic System Composed of Individuals under Satisfying Principle....Pages 193-195
Back Matter....Pages 196-198
Model of public city image formation based on a positive feedback mechanism....Pages 203-207
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