From cells to societies : models of complex coherent action /

The book addresses researchers and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology and the social sciences."--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mikhailov, A. S. (Alexander S.), 1950-
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Calenbuhr, V. (Vera), 1960-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]
Series:	Springer series in synergetics (Unnumbered)
Subjects:	Self-organizing systems. Models, Biological. Nonlinear Dynamics. Systems Theory. Zelforganiserende systemen. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The Games of Life
Excitable Media
Collective Amoebae
Fish Schools
Insect Societies
Active Motion
Elementary Mechanisms of Self-Motion
Self-Motion in External Fields
Hydrodynamics of Active Fluids
Traffic Flows
Ridden by the Noise
Demons and Ratchets
Navigation in Fluctuating Fields
Long Tails in Probability Distributions
Noise as a Resource
Dynamics with Delays and Expectations
The Age Dimension
Demographic Waves
A Model of the Market Crash
Mutual Synchronization
Interacting Clocks
The Synchronization Transition
The Influence of Noise
Noise-Induced Breakdown of Coherent Active Motion
Synchronous Chaos
Dynamical Clustering
Logistic Maps
Rossler Oscillators
Neural Networks
Protein Machines
Hierarchical Organization
Hierarchies
The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model
Replica-Symmetry Breaking in Dynamical Glasses
Fluid Turbulence
Hierarchically Structured Swarms
Dynamics and Evolution of Networks
Societies
Properties of Graphs
Clustering and Synchronization in Dynamical Networks
Evolution of Graphs.