Modeling Multi-Level Systems
This book is devoted to modeling of multi-level complex systems, a challenging domain for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs, confronted with the transition from learning and adaptability to evolvability and autonomy for technologies, devices and pr
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Complex Systems Founding Editor: J.A. Scott Kelso Future scientific and technological developments in many fields will necessarily depend upon coming to grips with complex systems. Such systems are complex in both their composition - typically many different kinds of components interacting simultaneously and nonlinearly with each other and their environments on multiple levels - and in the rich diversity of behavior of which they are capable. The Springer Series in Understanding Complex Systems series (UCS) promotes new strategies and paradigms for understanding and realizing applications of complex systems research in a wide variety of fields and endeavors. UCS is explicitly transdisciplinary. It has three main goals: First, to elaborate the concepts, methods and tools of complex systems at all levels of description and in all scientific fields, especially newly emerging areas within the life, social, behavioral, economic, neuroand cognitive sciences (and derivatives thereof); second, to encourage novel applications of these ideas in various fields of engineering and computation such as robotics, nano-technology and informatics; third, to provide a single forum within which commonalities and differences in the workings of complex systems may be discerned, hence leading to deeper insight and understanding. UCS will publish monographs, lecture notes and selected edited contributions aimed at communicating new findings to a large multidisciplinary audience.
Octavian Iordache
Modeling Multi-Level Systems
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Author Dr. Octavian Iordache Polystochastic Pitfield blvd. St. Laurent 3205 H4S 1H3 Montreal Canada E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-17945-7
e-ISBN 978-3-642-17946-4
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-17946-4 Understanding Complex Systems
ISSN 1860-0832
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…his way was to carry his mind into his laboratory, and literally to make of his alembics and cucurbits instruments of thought… C. S. Peirce The Fixation of Belief, 1877
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