Bücher der Reihe Springer Series in Synergetics

Develops and explains the foundations of noise-induced processes. Following an introduction to the mathematical tools, this book analyzes the occurrence and the properties of noise-induced transitions for rapidly fluctuating environments describable by the white-noise idealization. It considers more realistic and general types of colored noises.

This book was written, to a not inconsiderable degree, on the basis of the course "The Problems of Modern Biophysics" which the author gives to the students and postgraduates of the Biophysical Department at Moscow University School of Physics.

This book contains the manuscripts of the papers delivered at the International Sym posium on Synergetics held at SchloB Elmau, Bavaria, Germany, from April 30 until May 5, 1979. This time the subject of the symposium was "pattern formation by dynam ic systems and pattern recognition".

Integrating the concepts of classical and elementary particle interaction, this volume includes stripped-down model equations adaptable to numerous systems showing particle-like structures, making it a valuable source for researchers and graduate students.

This book explores modern developments in Hamiltonian dynamical systems, focusing on high degree-of-freedom systems and the transitional regimes between regular and chaotic motion. Includes end-of-chapter exercises and challenging problems.

This book details the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. It features numerous exercises with solutions.

This book provides the first introduction to the multidisciplinary field of turbulent transport in complex systems. There is emphasis on the scaling approach as opposed to techniques based on the quantitative analysis of underlying transport equations.

The vulnerability of our civilization to earthquakes is rapidly growing, rais ing earthquakes to the ranks of major threats faced by humankind. - Fundamental understanding of the lithosphere gained in earthquake prediction research. In addition, the theory of optimal control is used to link earthquake prediction with earthquake preparedness.

Dynamics of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems presents the fundamentals of chaotic time-delay systems and their synchronization, with an emphasis on the effects of time-delay feedback. Special attention is devoted to scalar chaotic/hyperchaotic time-delay systems, which includes some higher order models.

Asymptotic methods are of great importance for practical applications, especially in dealing with boundary value problems for small stochastic perturbations. The most likely exit point and expected escape time are determined with singular perturbation methods for the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation.

Extensively revised, expanded and updated for the new edition, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to nonlinear waves and soliton theory in the special environment of compact spaces such as closed curves and surfaces and other domain contours.

This book, a useful self-study guide, addresses the fundamental question on how to construct mathematical models for the evolution of dynamical systems from experimentally obtained time series. There is emphasis is on chaotic signals and nonlinear modelling.

This classic and revised text provides an excellent introduction and survey to the continuously expanding field of quantum chaos. Each chapter is accompanied by a selection of problems which will help the newcomer to test and deepen their understanding.

From the reviews: "This book is very well written and contains many important and new original results that certainly play an important role in today's nonlinear optics." Physicalia

This book lays out a vision for a coherent framework for understanding complex systems. By developing the genuine idea of Brownian agents, the author combines concepts from informatics, such as multiagent systems, with approaches of statistical many-particle physics.

This classic text provides an excellent introduction to a new and rapidly developing field of research. Now well established as a textbook in this rapidly developing field of research, the new edition is much enlarged and covers a host of new results.

We hope that the new edition of the book will be of great interest for a widesectionofreaderswhoarealreadyspecialistsorthosewhoarebeginning research in the ?elds of nonlinear oscillation and wave theory, dynamical chaos, synchronization, and stochastic process theory.

This work systematically investigates a large number of oscillatory network configurations that are able to describe many real systems such as electric power grids, lasers or even the heart muscle, to name but a few.

This book integrates the theories of complex self-organizing systems with the rich body of discourse and literature developed in what might be called 'social theory of cities and urbanism'. It uses techniques from dynamical complexity and synergetics to successfully tackle open social science questions.

This book shows how to appreciate a nonlinear world in which measures of space-time conflict. Starting with an analysis of chaos and randomness, it covers renormalization group theory, phenomena modeling, and how physicists can approach the study of biology.

This volume reviews the theory and simulation methods of stochastic kinetics by integrating historical and recent perspectives, presents applications, mostly in the context of systems biology and also in combustion theory.

This book introduces the theory of graphs and random walks on graphs, covers methods for exploring the structure of finite connected graphs and databases, and details applications in electric resistance networks, urban planning, linguistic databases and more.

Concepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena.

This classic text and reference collects the many formulae and methods that can be found in the scientific literature on stochastic methods. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated and restructured, and features a large amount of entirely new material.

Spontaneous pattern formation in nonlinear dissipative systems far from equilibrium occurs in a variety of settings in nature and technology, and has applications ranging from nonlinear optics through solid and fluid mechanics, physical chemistry and chemical engineering to biology.

The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate that the complexity of synchronous patterns of real oscillating systems can be described in the framework of the general approach, and the authors study this phenomenon as applied to oscillations of different types, such as those with periodic, chaotic, noisy and noise-induced nature.

This title is included in the Springer Complexity programme.