Cooperative Dynamics in Complex Physical Systems Proceedings of
Many novel cooperative phenomena found in a variety of systems studied by scientists can be treated using the uniting principles of synergetics. Examples are frustrated and random systems, polymers, spin glasses, neural networks, chemical and biological s
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Synergetics, an interdisciplinary field of research, is concerned with the cooperation of individual parts of a system that produces macroscopic spatial, temporal or functional structures. It deals with deterministic as well as stochastic processes.
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Hajime Takayama (Ed.)
Cooperative Dynamics in Complex Physical Systems Proceedings of the Second Yukawa International Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, August 24-27, 1988 With 181 Figures
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Professor Hajime Takayama Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, (Yukawa Hall), Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan
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Preface
The second Yukawa International Seminar (YKlS'88), devoted to cooperative dynamics in complex physical systems, was held from August 24 to 27, 1988, at Kansai Seminar House in Kyoto. The meeting was aimed at clarifying various cooperative aspects of complex physical systems that appear in different scientific disciplines, e.g., frustrated and random systems, polymers, spin glasses, glasses, neural networks, chemical and biological systems, and fluids. The various ideas developed so far were critically examined, thus preparing the way for possible breakthroughs in the field. During the past decade complex physical systems, in which local, topological constraints such as competition between
