Title: Complexity in physics and technology /
Authors: Garrido, Manuel S.; Mendes, R. Vilela
Date: 1992
Publisher: World Scientific,
Physical description: x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
Contents: Complexity, Uncertainty and Modelling. Discovering Coherent Structures in Nonlinear Spatial Systems / James P. Crutchfield. Uncertainty, Subjectivity, Fuzziness / Arnold Kaufmann. The 'In' and 'Out' - An Evolutionary Approach / P. R. Medina-Martins and L. Rocha -- Chaos, Instabilities and Control of Chaos. Effects of Parametric Perturbation on the Onset of Chaos / Leone Fronzoni. Chaotic Oscillations of a Spherical Pendulum as the Effect of Interaction with the Excitation Device / Tatyana S. Krasnopolskaya and Alexander Yu Shvets. Motion of a Satellite in an Elliptic Orbit / Paolo Santini, Remo Beneditti and Paolo Gasbarri -- Oscillator Chains and Propagation in Non-Linear Media. Equipartition Transition and Lyapunov Exponents in Closed Hamiltonian Systems / Roberto Livi and Stefano Ruffo. Dark Optical Solitons / Yuri S. Kivshar -- Networks. Some Experimental Results on Asymmetric Boltzmann Machines / Bruno Apolloni, Angela Armelloni, Giuseppe Bollani and Diego de Falco. Information-Specific Designs of Multi-Connected Neural Network Models / Karl E. Kurten. Optimization with Potts Neural Networks / Bo Soderberg -- Vision. Early Vision with Cellular Automata Fields / Ricardo A. Marques Pereira -- Complexity, Data Analysis and Prediction. On the Use of the Bi-Orthogonal Decomposition / Joaquim A. Dente and Ricardo Lima. Earthquake Behaviour of Structures: From Overabundant Complexity to Useful Knowledge through Constructive Probabilities / Ricardo Teixeira Duarte. Aspects of Complexity in Sleep Analysis / Jose M. N. Leitao and Agostinho C. da Rosa. Prediction of Time Sedes / J. Santana and R. Vilela Mendes -- Production Lines. Stochastic Dispersive Transport. An Excursion from Statistical Physics to Automated Prnduction Line Design / M.-O. Hongler.