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"Preface It was in the year 1978 when Mr. Chi Xu published his head-turning reportage, entitled The Goldbach Conjecture, that Chinese people with great national enthusiasm learned about Jingrun Chen, a mathematician, and his life-long attempt to prove the problem of 1 + 1 = 2, a shining star on...

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Main Authors: Forrest, Jeffrey Yi-Lin, 1959- (Author), Duan, Xiaojun (Author), Zhao, Chengli (Author), Xu, Li D. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2013]
Series:Advances in systems science and engineering.
Subjects:
System theory.
Systems Theory
Théorie des systèmes.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Information Management.
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
SCIENCE > System Theory.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Operations Research.
System theory
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. A brief history of systems science
  • ch. 2. Concepts, characteristics, and classifications of systems
  • ch. 3. Nonlinear systems dynamics and catastrophe
  • ch. 4. Self-organization : dissipative structures and synergetics
  • ch. 5. Chaos
  • ch. 6. Fractals
  • ch. 7. Complex systems and complexity
  • ch. 8. Complex adaptive systems
  • ch. 9. Open complex giant systems
  • ch. 10. Complex networks
  • ch. 11. Case studies.