Title | Complex Systems โ Operational Approaches in Neurobiology, Physics, and Computers [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Schloร Elmau, Bavaria, May 6-11, 1985 / edited by Hermann Haken |
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Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70795-7 |
Descript | X, 365 p. 13 illus. online resource |
Operational Approaches to Complex Systems. An Introduction -- I Evolution -- Effects of Finite Population Size and Other Stochastic Phenomena in Molecular Evolution. -- II Functions of the Brain in Man and Animals -- Computation of Sensory Information by the Visual System of the Fly (From Behaviour to Neuronal Circuitry). -- Multi-Neuron Experiments: Observation of State in Neural Nets -- Investigation of a Small Volume of Neocortex with Multiple Microelectrodes: Evidence for Principles of Self-Organization. -- New Light on the Mind-Brain Problem: How Mental Events Could Influence Neural Events. -- Spin Glasses as Model Systems for Neural Networks -- Strange Attractors in the Dynamics of Brain Activity -- III Coordination of Motion -- Cooperative Phenomena in Biological Motion -- The Central Nervous System Utilizes a Simple Control Strategy to Generate the Synergy Used to Control Locomotion -- Control Strategies for Complex Movements Derived from Physical Systems Theory. -- Parallel Processes in Oculomotor Control. -- Dynamics and Cooperativity in the Organization of Cytoplasmic Structures and Flows. -- IV Computers and Computing -- Parallel Processes and Parallel Algorithms -- Massively Parallel Multi-Computer Hardware=Software Structures for Learning. -- Pattern Recognition Based on Holonic Information Dynamics: Towards Synergetic Computers. -- Self-Organization of the Dynamical Channel -- V Theoretical Concepts -- Macroscopic Prediction. -- Entropy-Like Potentials in Non-Equilibrium Systems with Coexisting Attractors. -- VI Physical Systems; Order and Chaos -- Bifurcations in Particle Physics and in Crystal Growth -- Pattern Formation and Transients in the Convection Instability -- Convection in Spherical Geometries -- How Does Low Dimensional Chaos Arise in Complex Systems with Infinite Degrees of Freedom? -- Chaos and Turbulence in an Electron-Hole Plasma in Germanium -- Turbulent Motion. The Structure of Chaos. -- Fully Developed Turbulence as a Complex Structure in Nonlinear Dynamics. -- Cooperative Effects and Superradiance in Compton Scattering and Their Relevance to Free Electron Lasers -- Index of Contributors