Multiplicity Of Time Scales In Complex Systems

Author : Bernhelm Booss
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : System theory
ISBN : 9783031280498

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Zusammenfassung: This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies. The book addresses the vast diversity of interacting processes underlying the behaviour of different complex systems, highlighting the multiplicity of characteristic time scales that are a common feature of many and showcases a rich variety of methodologies across disciplinary boundaries. Self-organizing, out-of-equilibrium, ever-evolving systems are ubiquitous in the natural and social world. Examples include the climate, ecosystems, living cells, epidemics, the human brain, and many socio-economic systems across history. Their dynamical behaviour poses great challenges in the pressing context of the climate crisis, since they may involve nonlinearities, feedback loops, and the emergence of spatial-temporal patterns, portrayed by resilience or instability, plasticity or rigidity; bifurcations, thresholds and tipping points; burst-in excitation or slow relaxation, and worlds of other asymptotic behaviour, hysteresis, and resistance to change. Chapters can be read individually by the reader with special interest in such behaviours of particular complex systems or in specific disciplinary perspectives. Read together, however, the case studies, opinion pieces, and meta-studies on MTS systems presented and analysed here combine to give the reader insights that are more than the sum of the book's individual chapters, as surprising similarities become apparent in seemingly disparate and unconnected systems. MTS systems call into question naïve perceptions of time and complexity, moving beyond conventional ways of description, analysis, understanding, modelling, numerical prediction, and prescription of the world around us. This edited collection presents new ways of forecasting, introduces new means of control, and - perhaps as the most demanding task - it singles out a sustainable description of an MTS system under observation, offering a more nuanced interpretation of the floods of quantitative data and images made available by high- and low-frequency measurement tools in our unprecedented era of information flows

Author : Bernhelm Booss,Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen,Katherine Richardson,Oriol Vallès Codina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : System theory
ISBN : 9783031451058

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Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems by Bernhelm Booss,Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen,Katherine Richardson,Oriol Vallès Codina Pdf

This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies. The book addresses the vast diversity of interacting processes underlying the behaviour of different complex systems, highlighting the multiplicity of characteristic time scales that are a common feature of many and showcases a rich variety of methodologies across disciplinary boundaries. Self-organizing, out-of-equilibrium, ever-evolving systems are ubiquitous in the natural and social world. Examples include the climate, ecosystems, living cells, epidemics, the human brain, and many socio-economic systems across history. Their dynamical behaviour poses great challenges in the pressing context of the climate crisis, since they may involve nonlinearities, feedback loops, and the emergence of spatial-temporal patterns, portrayed by resilience or instability, plasticity or rigidity; bifurcations, thresholds and tipping points; burst-in excitation or slow relaxation, and worlds of other asymptotic behaviour, hysteresis, and resistance to change. Chapters can be read individually by the reader with special interest in such behaviours of particular complex systems or in specific disciplinary perspectives. Read together, however, the case studies, opinion pieces, and meta-studies on MTS systems presented and analysed here combine to give the reader insights that are more than the sum of the book's individual chapters, as surprising similarities become apparent in seemingly disparate and unconnected systems. MTS systems call into question naïve perceptions of time and complexity, moving beyond conventional ways of description, analysis, understanding, modelling, numerical prediction, and prescription of the world around us. This edited collection presents new ways of forecasting, introduces new means of control, and -- perhaps as the most demanding task -- it singles out a sustainable description of an MTS system under observation, offering a more nuanced interpretation of the floods of quantitative data and images made available by high- and low-frequency measurement tools in our unprecedented era of information flows.

Author : Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek,Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen,Katherine Richardson,Oriol Vallès Codina
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 3031280482

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Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems by Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek,Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen,Katherine Richardson,Oriol Vallès Codina Pdf

This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies. The book addresses the vast diversity of interacting processes underlying the behaviour of different complex systems, highlighting the multiplicity of characteristic time scales that are a common feature of many and showcases a rich variety of methodologies across disciplinary boundaries. Self-organizing, out-of-equilibrium, ever-evolving systems are ubiquitous in the natural and social world. Examples include the climate, ecosystems, living cells, epidemics, the human brain, and many socio-economic systems across history. Their dynamical behaviour poses great challenges in the pressing context of the climate crisis, since they may involve nonlinearities, feedback loops, and the emergence of spatial-temporal patterns, portrayed by resilience or instability, plasticity or rigidity; bifurcations, thresholds and tipping points; burst-in excitation or slow relaxation, and worlds of other asymptotic behaviour, hysteresis, and resistance to change. Chapters can be read individually by the reader with special interest in such behaviours of particular complex systems or in specific disciplinary perspectives. Read together, however, the case studies, opinion pieces, and meta-studies on MTS systems presented and analysed here combine to give the reader insights that are more than the sum of the book’s individual chapters, as surprising similarities become apparent in seemingly disparate and unconnected systems. MTS systems call into question naïve perceptions of time and complexity, moving beyond conventional ways of description, analysis, understanding, modelling, numerical prediction, and prescription of the world around us. This edited collection presents new ways of forecasting, introduces new means of control, and – perhaps as the most demanding task – it singles out a sustainable description of an MTS system under observation, offering a more nuanced interpretation of the floods of quantitative data and images made available by high- and low-frequency measurement tools in our unprecedented era of information flows.

Author : Richard Walsh,Susan Stepney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319647142

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Narrating Complexity by Richard Walsh,Susan Stepney Pdf

This book stages a dialogue between international researchers from the broad fields of complexity science and narrative studies. It presents an edited collection of chapters on aspects of how narrative theory from the humanities may be exploited to understand, explain, describe, and communicate aspects of complex systems, such as their emergent properties, feedbacks, and downwards causation; and how ideas from complexity science can inform narrative theory, and help explain, understand, and construct new, more complex models of narrative as a cognitive faculty and as a pervasive cultural form in new and old media. The book is suitable for academics, practitioners, and professionals, and postgraduates in complex systems, narrative theory, literary and film studies, new media and game studies, and science communication.

Author : Tamiki Komatsuzaki,R. Stephen Berry,David M. Leitner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470643716

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Advancing Theory for Kinetics and Dynamics of Complex, Many-Dimensional Systems by Tamiki Komatsuzaki,R. Stephen Berry,David M. Leitner Pdf

This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline. Volume 145 in the series continues to report recent advances with significant, up-to-date chapters by internationally recognized researchers.

Author : Mandell A J,Shlesinger Michael F,Kelso J A Scott
Publisher : #N/A
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814699792

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Dynamic Patterns In Complex Systems - Proceedings Of The Conference In Honor Of Hermann Haken's 60th Birthday by Mandell A J,Shlesinger Michael F,Kelso J A Scott Pdf

Author : John Polkinghorne,Michael Welker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563383128

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The End of the World and the Ends of God by John Polkinghorne,Michael Welker Pdf

In this provocative collection of essays, scientists, theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars look at eschatology through their various lenses.

Author : Lynn Nadel,Daniel I. Stein
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780429983207

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1990 Lectures In Complex Systems by Lynn Nadel,Daniel I. Stein Pdf

An excellent series presenting top lecturers from the best institute for complex systems. Topics covered include: stochastic processes; fluid flow; pattern formation; information-based complexity; motor system problems; and the nature of adaptive change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 6582 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781464963346

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Issues in Chemistry and General Chemical Research: 2011 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Chemistry and General Chemical Research: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Chemistry and General Chemical Research. The editors have built Issues in Chemistry and General Chemical Research: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Chemistry and General Chemical Research in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Chemistry and General Chemical Research: 2011 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Cristoforo S. Bertuglia,Giuliano. Bianchi,Alfredo Mela
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642959295

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The City and Its Sciences by Cristoforo S. Bertuglia,Giuliano. Bianchi,Alfredo Mela Pdf

Recent developments in the field of urban analysis and management are investigated in this book. It is a wide-ranging collection of essays on the subject drawn from a long-term project and seminar, held in Italy, to review the state of the art and speculate on the future influence on the "sciences of the city" of the complexity concept. Of particular interest is the variety of points of view, often contrasting, and the attempt to go beyond the conventional approaches to the analysis, and the planning of the city. While focussing mainly on the European (and in particular Italian) context, the discussion is of general relevance and valuable to anyone concerned with the prospects for the city in the new millenium.

Author : Michael R. Lissack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313013942

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The Interaction of Complexity and Management by Michael R. Lissack Pdf

What is complexity science? What is management? And how are the two linked? The potential of complexity science in the fields of management and organization studies has been explored before, yet there is little agreement on what complexity science truly is. Lissack and Rivkin, along with a panel of distinguished academics and executives, identify critical topics in the study of complexity science. They reveal complexity science to be a process, one seeking and understanding of the systems we inhabit, and ways of applying that understanding to the management of organizations. Complexity science is not a management fad, and the authors do not treat it as such. Instead, they offer useful and fascinating viewpoints on how work is managed in an age of business uncertainty, and how it can be more successfully managed with the aid of this rapidly evolving new field of science. Their multidisciplinary book combines systems theory, statistical modeling, and individual and organizational learning in an innovative new context. The volume takes a pragmatic approach: if it works, it's right. And complexity science, say the authors, work extremely well. This book is an important resource for upper level executives, specialists in organizational behavior, and their colleagues in the academic community.

Author : Dagmar Cagáňová,Michal Balog,Lucia Knapčíková,Jakub Soviar,Serkan Mezarcıöz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319769981

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Smart Technology Trends in Industrial and Business Management by Dagmar Cagáňová,Michal Balog,Lucia Knapčíková,Jakub Soviar,Serkan Mezarcıöz Pdf

This book presents current developments in smart city research and application regarding the management of manufacturing systems, Industry 4.0, transportation, and business management. It suggests approaches to incorporating smart city innovations into manufacturing systems, with an eye towards competitiveness in a global environment. The same pro-innovative approach is then applied to business and cooperation management. The authors also present smart city transportation solutions including vehicle data processing/reporting system, mobile application for fleet managers, bus drivers, bus passengers and special applications for smart city buses like passenger counting system, IP cameras, GPS system etc. The goal of the book is to establish channels of communication and disseminate knowledge among researchers and professionals working on smart city research and application. Features contributions on a variety of topics related to smart cities from global researchers and professionals in a wide range of sectors; Presents topics relating to smart cities such as manufacturing, business, and transportation; Includes expanded selected papers from EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2016), EAI Industry of Things and Future Technologies Conference – Mobility IoT 2016 and International Conference on Smart Electric Vehicles and Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (SEVNET).

Author : John Rundle,John B. Rundle,Donald L. Turcotte,William Klein
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780875909783

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Geocomplexity and the Physics of Earthquakes by John Rundle,John B. Rundle,Donald L. Turcotte,William Klein Pdf

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 120. Earthquakes in urban centers are capable of causing enormous damage. The January 16, 1995 Kobe, Japan earthquake was only a magnitude 6.9 event and yet produced an estimated $200 billion loss. Despite an active earthquake prediction program in Japan, this event was a complete surprise. Similar scenarios are possible in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and other urban centers around the Pacific plate boundary. The development of forecast or prediction methodologies for these great damaging earthquakes has been complicated by the fact that the largest events repeat at irregular intervals of hundreds to thousands of years, resulting in a limited historical record that has frustrated phenomenological studies. The papers in this book describe an emerging alternative approach, which is based on a new understanding of earthquake physics arising from the construction and analysis of numerical simulations. With these numerical simulations, earthquake physics now can be investigated in numerical laboratories. Simulation data from numerical experiments can be used to develop theoretical understanding that can be subsequently applied to observed data. These methods have been enabled by the information technology revolution, in which fundamental advances in computing and communications are placing vast computational resources at our disposal.

Author : Mark E. Jensen,Patrick S. Bourgeron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441986207

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A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments by Mark E. Jensen,Patrick S. Bourgeron Pdf

A rich set of protocols for the process of assessing the ecological make-up of the land so as to guide environmental decision-making.

Author : Paolo Sibani,Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781848169951

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Stochastic Dynamics of Complex Systems by Paolo Sibani,Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen Pdf

Dynamical evolution over long time scales is a prominent feature of all the systems we intuitively think of as complex — for example, ecosystems, the brain or the economy. In physics, the term ageing is used for this type of slow change, occurring over time scales much longer than the patience, or indeed the lifetime, of the observer. The main focus of this book is on the stochastic processes which cause ageing, and the surprising fact that the ageing dynamics of systems which are very different at the microscopic level can be treated in similar ways. The first part of this book provides the necessary mathematical and computational tools and the second part describes the intuition needed to deal with these systems. Some of the first few chapters have been covered in several other books, but the emphasis and selection of the topics reflect both the authors' interests and the overall theme of the book. The second part contains an introduction to the scientific literature and deals in some detail with the description of complex phenomena of a physical and biological nature, for example, disordered magnetic materials, superconductors and glasses, models of co-evolution in ecosystems and even of ant behaviour. These heterogeneous topics are all dealt with in detail using similar analytical techniques. This book emphasizes the unity of complex dynamics and provides the tools needed to treat a large number of complex systems of current interest. The ideas and the approach to complex dynamics it presents have not appeared in book form until now.