Introduction to complexity and complex systems
By: Robert B. Northrop
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
ISBN-13: 9781439839010
Subjects: Theoretical Models; Biophysical Phenomena; Chaotic behavior in systems; Biomedical Technology; Complexity (Philosophy); Biocomplexity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-520) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to complexity and complex systems; title: Introduction to large linear systems; title: Introduction to biochemical oscillators and nonlinear biochemical systems; title: Modularity, redundancy, degeneracy, pleiotropy and robustness in complex biological systems; title: The evolution of biological complexity; invertebrate immune systems; title: Irreducible and specified complexity in living systems; title: The complex adaptive and innate human immune systems; title: Complexity in quasispecies : microRNAs; title: Introduction to complexity in economic systems; title: Complexity in quasispecies : micrornas; title: Dealing with complexity.