Availability: Complexity explained | Technische Universität München

Complexity explained:

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Érdi, Péter (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin u.a. Springer 2008
Series:	Springer complexity
Subjects:	Complexity (Philosophy) Computational complexity System theory Komplexes System
Links:	http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2819224&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016260322&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Item Description:	Literaturverz. S. [365] - 391
Physical Description:	XV, 397 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 235 mm x 155 mm
ISBN:	3540357777

Staff View

MARC


LEADER	00000nam a2200000 c 4500
001	BV023057050
003	DE-604
005	20230126
007	t\|
008	071218s2008 gw ad\|\| \|\|\|\| 00\|\|\| eng d
015			\|a 06,N27,0025 \|2 dnb
016	7		\|a 979972310 \|2 DE-101
020			\|a 3540357777 \|c Gb. : ca. EUR 53.45 (freier Pr.), ca. sfr 88.50 (freier Pr.) \|9 3-540-35777-7
020			\|z 9783540357773 \|9 9783540357773
028	5	2	\|a 11545286
035			\|a (OCoLC)244013588
035			\|a (DE-599)BVBBV023057050
040			\|a DE-604 \|b ger \|e rakddb
041	0		\|a eng
044			\|a gw \|c XA-DE-BE
049			\|a DE-19 \|a DE-M347
050		0	\|a Q175.32.C65
050		0	\|a QA267.7
082	0		\|a 511.3 \|2 22
084			\|a CC 6300 \|0 (DE-625)17655: \|2 rvk
084			\|a QH 700 \|0 (DE-625)141608: \|2 rvk
084			\|a 004 \|2 sdnb
100	1		\|a Érdi, Péter \|e Verfasser \|4 aut
245	1	0	\|a Complexity explained \|c Péter Érdi
264		1	\|a Berlin u.a. \|b Springer \|c 2008
300			\|a XV, 397 S. \|b Ill., graph. Darst. \|c 235 mm x 155 mm
336			\|b txt \|2 rdacontent
337			\|b n \|2 rdamedia
338			\|b nc \|2 rdacarrier
490	0		\|a Springer complexity
500			\|a Literaturverz. S. [365] - 391
650		4	\|a Complexity (Philosophy)
650		4	\|a Computational complexity
650		4	\|a System theory
650	0	7	\|a Komplexes System \|0 (DE-588)4114261-5 \|2 gnd \|9 rswk-swf
689	0	0	\|a Komplexes System \|0 (DE-588)4114261-5 \|D s
689	0		\|5 DE-604
856	4	2	\|q text/html \|u http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2819224&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm \|3 Inhaltstext
856	4	2	\|m HEBIS Datenaustausch Darmstadt \|q application/pdf \|u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016260322&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA \|3 Inhaltsverzeichnis
943	1		\|a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-016260322

Record in the Search Index

_version_	1819251972143841280
adam_text	PETER ERDI COMPLEXITY EXPLAINED WITH 129 FIGURES FYA SPRINGER CONTENTS COMPLEX SYSTEMS: THE INTELLECTUAL LANDSCAPE 1 1.1 THE CENTURY OF COMPLEXITY? 1 1.2 CHARACTERISTICS OF SIMPLE AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS 5 1.2.1 SYSTEM AND ITS ENVIRONMENT 5 1.2.2 SIMPLE SYSTEMS 6 1.2.3 COMPLEX SYSTEMS 7 1.3 CONNECTING THE DOTS 20 HISTORY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS RESEARCH 25 2.1 REDUCTIONIST SUCCESS STORIES VERSUS THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION PRINCIPLES 25 2.1.1 REDUCTIONISM AND HOLISM IN QUANTUM PHYSICS 25 2.1.2 REDUCTIONISM AND COMPLEXITY IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ... 29 2.2 ANCESTORS OF PRESENT DAY COMPLEX SYSTEM RESEARCH 35 2.2.1 SYSTEMS THEORY 35 2.2.2 CYBERNETICS 37 2.2.3 NONLINEAR SCIENCE IN ACTION: THEORY OF DISSIPATIVE STRUCTURES, SYNERGETICS AND CATASTROPHE THEORY 45 FROM THE CLOCKWORK WORLD VIEW TO IRREVERSIBILITY (AND BACK?) 57 3.1 CYCLIC UNIVERSE VERSUS LINEAR TIME CONCEPT: THE METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE 57 3.1.1 CYCLIC UNIVERSE 57 3.1.2 LINEAR TIME CONCEPTS 59, 3.2 THE NEWTONIAN CLOCKWORK UNIVERSE 61 3.2.1 THE MECHANICAL CLOCK 61 3.2.2 KEPLER S INTEGRAL LAWS 66 3.2.3 NEWTON S DIFFERENTIAL LAWS, HAMILTON EQUATIONS, CONSERVATIVE OSCILLATION, DISSIPATION 68 3.3 MECHANICS VERSUS THERMODYNAMICS 75 XII CONTENTS 3.3.1 HEAT CONDUCTION AND IRREVERSIBILITY 75 3.3.2 STEAM ENGINE, FEEDBACK CONTROL, IRREVERSIBILITY 77 3.3.3 THE FIRST AND SECOND LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS- 77 3.4 THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN THEORY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 79 3.5 OSCILLATIONS 81 3.5.1 THE LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL 81 3.5.2 STABLE OSCILLATION: LIMIT CYCLES 83 3.5.3 QUASIPERIODIC MOTIONS: A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MODERN THEORY OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 86 3.6 THE CHAOS PARADIGM: THEN AND NOW 87 3.6.1 DEFINING AND DETECTING CHAOS 87 3.6.2 STRUCTURAL AND GEOMETRICAL CONDITIONS OF CHAOS: WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT IS NOT? 91 3.6.3 THE NECESSITY OF BEING CHAOTIC 94 3.6.4 CONTROLLING CHAOS: WHY AND HOW? 96 3.6.5 TRAVELING TO HIGH-DIMENSION LAND: CHAOTIC ITINERANCY 98 3.7 DIRECTION OF EVOLUTION 100 3.7.1 DOLLO S LAW IN RETROSPECTIVE 100 3.7.2 IS SOMETHING NEVER-DECREASING DURING EVOLUTION? 102 3.8 CYCLIC UNIVERSE: REVISITED... AND CRITICIZED 105 4 THE DYNAMIC WORLD VIEW IN ACTION 109 4.1 CAUSALITY, TELEOLOGY AND ABOUT THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF THE DYNAMICAL PARADIGM 109 4.1.1 CAUSAL VERSUS TELEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION 110 4.1.2 CAUSALITY, NETWORKS, EMERGENT NOVELTY 112 4.2 CHEMICAL KINETICS: A PROTOTYPE OF NONLINEAR SCIENCE 113 4.2.1 ON THE STRUCTURE - DYNAMICS RELATIONSHIP FOR CHEMICAL REACTIONS 118 4.2.2 CHEMICAL KINETICS AS A METALANGUAGE 119 4.2.3 SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY .... 120 4.3 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: THE HALF ADMITTED RENAISSANCE OF CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS THEORY 130 4.3.1 LIFE ITSELF 130 4.3.2 CELLS AS SELF-REFERENTIAL SYSTEMS 131 4.3.3 THE OLD-NEW SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 133 4.3.4 RANDOM BOOLEAN NETWORKS: MODEL FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATIONS FOR GENETIC NETWORKS 135 4.4 POPULATION DYNAMIC AND EPIDEMIC MODELS: BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL 140 4.4.1 CONNECTIVITY, STABILITY, DIVERSITY 140 4.4.2 THE EPIDEMIC PROPAGATION OF INFECTIONS AND IDEAS 144 4.4.3 MODELING SOCIAL EPIDEMICS 146 4.5 EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS 147 4.6 DYNAMIC MODELS OF WAR AND LOVE 148 CONTENTS XIII 4.6.1 LANCHASTER S COMBAT MODEL AND ITS VARIATIONS 148 4.6.2 IS LOVE DIFFERENT FROM WAR? 151 4.7 SOCIAL DYNAMICS: SOME EXAMPLES 154 4.7.1 SEGREGATION DYNAMICS 154 4.7.2 OPINION DYNAMICS 157 4.8 NONLINEAR DYNAMICS IN ECONOMICS: SOME EXAMPLES 159 4.8.1 BUSINESS CYCLES 159 4.8.2 CONTROLLING CHAOS IN ECONOMIC MODELS 161 4.9 DRUG MARKET: CONTROLLING CHAOS 162 5 THE SEARCH FOR LAWS: DEDUCTIVE VERSUS INDUCTIVE 165 5.1 DEDUCTIVE VERSUS INDUCTIVE ARGUMENTS 165 5.2 PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA AND THE DEDUCTIVE APPROACH: FROM NEWTON TO RUSSELL AND WHITEHEAD 167 5.3 KARL POPPER AND THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION 169 5.4 CYBERNETICS: BRIDGE BETWEEN NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL 169 5.5 JOHN VON NEUMANN: THE REAL PIONEER OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS STUDIES 170 5.6 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HERBERT SIMON AND THE BOUNDED RATIONALITY 175 5.7 INDUCTIVE REASONING AND BOUNDED RATIONALITY: FROM HERBERT SIMON TO BRIAN ARTHUR 178 5.8 MINORITY GAME 180 5.9 SUMMARY AND WHAT NEXT? 182 6 STATISTICAL LAWS: FROM SYMMETRIC TO ASYMMETRIC 185 6.1 NORMAL DISTRIBUTION 185 6.1.1 GENERAL REMARKS 185 6.1.2 GENERATION OF NORMAL DISTRIBUTION: BROWNIAN MOTION . . 187 6.1.3 LIOUVILLE PROCESS, WIENER AND SPECIAL WIENER PROCESS, ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK PROCESS 188 6.2 BIMODAL AND MULTIMODAL DISTRIBUTIONS 190 6.3 LONG TAIL DISTRIBUTIONS 191 6.3.1 LOGNORMAL AND POWER LAW DISTRIBUTIONS: PHENOMENOLOGY 191 6.3.2 GENERATION OF LOGNORMAL AND POWER LAW DISTRIBUTIONS 194 7 SIMPLE AND COMPLEX STRUCTURES: BETWEEN ORDER AND RANDOMNESS 201 7.1 COMPLEXITY AND RANDOMNESS 201 7.2 STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY 203 7.2.1 STRUCTURES AND GRAPHS 204 7.2.2 COMPLEXITY OF GRAPHS 208 7.2.3 FRACTAL STRUCTURES 212 7.3 NOISE-INDUCED ORDERING: AN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL MODEL 217 XIV CONTENTS 7.4 NETWORKS EVERYWHERE: BETWEEN ORDER AND RANDOMNESS 219 7.4.1 STATISTICAL APPROACH TO LARGE NETWORKS 219 7.4.2 NETWORKS IN CELL BIOLOGY 221 7.4.3 EPIDEMICS ON NETWORKS 223 7.4.4 CITATION AND COLLABORATION NETWORKS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 225 8 COMPLEXITY OF THE BRAIN: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND DYNAMICS 237 8.1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 237 8.2 WINDOWS ON THE BRAIN 238 8.2.1 A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE BRAIN-MIND PROBLEM 238 8.2.2 EXPERIMENTAL METHODS: A BRIEF REVIEW 239 8.3 APPROACHES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES 241 8.3.1 LEVELS 241 8.3.2 BOTTOM UP AND TOP DOWN 242 8.3.3 ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES 243 8.4 SINGLE CELLS 247 8.4.1 SINGLE CELLS: GENERAL REMARKS 247 8.4.2 SINGLE CELL MODELING: DETERMINISTIC AND STOCHASTIC FRAMEWORK 250 8.5 STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS, FUNCTION 255 8.5.1 STRUCTURAL ASPECTS 255 8.5.2 NEURAL RHYTHMS 261 8.5.3 VARIATIONS ON THE HEBBIAN LEARNING RULE: DIFFERENT ROOTS 283 8.6 COMPLEXITY AND CYBERNETICS: TOWARDS A UNIFIED THEORY OF BRAIN-MIND AND COMPUTER 289 8.6.1 CYBERNETICS STRIKES BACK 289 8.6.2 FROM COGNITIVE SCIENCE TO EMBODIED COGNITION 291 8.6.3 THE BRAIN AS A HERMENEUTIC DEVICE 296 8.6.4 FROM NEURONS TO SOUL AND BACK 299 9 FROM MODELS TO DECISION MAKING 305 9.1 EQUATION-BASED VERSUS AGENT-BASED MODEL 305 9.1.1 MOTIVATIONS 305 9.1.2 ARTIFICIAL LIFE 306 9.1.3 ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES 311 9.1.4 AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS 316 9.2 GAME THEORY: WHERE WE ARE NOW? 318 9.2.1 CLASSICAL GAME THEORY 318 9.2.2 EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY . 322 9.3 WIDENING THE LIMITS TO PREDICTIONS: EARTHQUAKE, ERUPTIONS EPILEPTICS SEIZURES, AND STOCK MARKET CRASHES 328 9.3.1 SCOPE AND LIMITS OF PREDICTABILITY 328 CONTENTS XV 9.3.2 PHENOMENOLOGY 329 9.3.3 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF EXTREME EVENTS 338 9.3.4 TOWARDS PREDICTING SEIZURES 341 9.3.5 TOWARDS PREDICTING MARKET CRASHES: ANALYSIS OF PRICE PEAKS 344 9.3.6 DYNAMICAL MODELS OF EXTREME EVENTS 345 10 HOW MANY CULTURES WE HAVE? 353 10.1 COMPLEXITY AS A UNIFYING CONCEPT 353 10.1.1 SYSTEMS AND SIMULATIONS 353 10.1.2 THE TOPICS OF THE BOOK IN RETROSPECTIVE: NATURAL AND HUMAN SOCIOECONOMIE; SYSTEMS 354 10.2 THE INGREDIENTS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS 357 10.3 COMPLEXITY EXPLAINED: IN DEFENSE OF (BOUNDED) RATIONALITY . . 359 REFERENCES 365 INDEX 393
any_adam_object	1
author	Érdi, Péter
author_facet	Érdi, Péter
author_role	aut
author_sort	Érdi, Péter
author_variant	p é pé
building	Verbundindex
bvnumber	BV023057050
callnumber-first	Q - Science
callnumber-label	Q175
callnumber-raw	Q175.32.C65 QA267.7
callnumber-search	Q175.32.C65 QA267.7
callnumber-sort	Q 3175.32 C65
callnumber-subject	Q - General Science
classification_rvk	CC 6300 QH 700
ctrlnum	(OCoLC)244013588 (DE-599)BVBBV023057050
dewey-full	511.3
dewey-hundreds	500 - Natural sciences and mathematics
dewey-ones	511 - General principles of mathematics
dewey-raw	511.3
dewey-search	511.3
dewey-sort	3511.3
dewey-tens	510 - Mathematics
discipline	Informatik Mathematik Philosophie Wirtschaftswissenschaften
format	Book
fullrecord	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>01852nam a2200505 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV023057050</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20230126 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t\|</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">071218s2008 gw ad\|\| \|\|\|\| 00\|\|\| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="015" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">06,N27,0025</subfield><subfield code="2">dnb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="016" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">979972310</subfield><subfield code="2">DE-101</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">3540357777</subfield><subfield code="c">Gb. : ca. EUR 53.45 (freier Pr.), ca. sfr 88.50 (freier Pr.)</subfield><subfield code="9">3-540-35777-7</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">9783540357773</subfield><subfield code="9">9783540357773</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="028" ind1="5" ind2="2"><subfield code="a">11545286</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)244013588</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV023057050</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakddb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">gw</subfield><subfield code="c">XA-DE-BE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-19</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-M347</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Q175.32.C65</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">QA267.7</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">511.3</subfield><subfield code="2">22</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">CC 6300</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)17655:</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">QH 700</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)141608:</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">004</subfield><subfield code="2">sdnb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Érdi, Péter</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Complexity explained</subfield><subfield code="c">Péter Érdi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Berlin u.a.</subfield><subfield code="b">Springer</subfield><subfield code="c">2008</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">XV, 397 S.</subfield><subfield code="b">Ill., graph. Darst.</subfield><subfield code="c">235 mm x 155 mm</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Springer complexity</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Literaturverz. S. [365] - 391</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Complexity (Philosophy)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Computational complexity</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">System theory</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1="0" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Komplexes System</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4114261-5</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Komplexes System</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4114261-5</subfield><subfield code="D">s</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="q">text/html</subfield><subfield code="u">http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2819224&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltstext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">HEBIS Datenaustausch Darmstadt</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016260322&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="943" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-016260322</subfield></datafield></record></collection>
id	DE-604.BV023057050
illustrated	Illustrated
indexdate	2024-12-20T13:07:38Z
institution	BVB
isbn	3540357777
language	English
oai_aleph_id	oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-016260322
oclc_num	244013588
open_access_boolean
owner	DE-19 DE-BY-UBM DE-M347
owner_facet	DE-19 DE-BY-UBM DE-M347
physical	XV, 397 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 235 mm x 155 mm
publishDate	2008
publishDateSearch	2008
publishDateSort	2008
publisher	Springer
record_format	marc
series2	Springer complexity
spellingShingle	Érdi, Péter Complexity explained Complexity (Philosophy) Computational complexity System theory Komplexes System (DE-588)4114261-5 gnd
subject_GND	(DE-588)4114261-5
title	Complexity explained
title_auth	Complexity explained
title_exact_search	Complexity explained
title_full	Complexity explained Péter Érdi
title_fullStr	Complexity explained Péter Érdi
title_full_unstemmed	Complexity explained Péter Érdi
title_short	Complexity explained
title_sort	complexity explained
topic	Complexity (Philosophy) Computational complexity System theory Komplexes System (DE-588)4114261-5 gnd
topic_facet	Complexity (Philosophy) Computational complexity System theory Komplexes System
url	http://deposit.dnb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2819224&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=016260322&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
work_keys_str_mv	AT erdipeter complexityexplained

Availability

‌

Order via interlibrary loan Table of Contents