Self-Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:691336 L3 - citeulike-article-id:691336 N2 - Self-organized criticality (SOC) maintains that complex behavior can developspontaneously in certain multi-body systems whose dynamics vary abruptly. Thisis a clear and concise introduction to the field of self-organizedcriticality, and contains an overview of the main research results. The authorbegins with an examination of what is meant by SOC, and the systems in whichit can occur. He then presents and analyzes computer models to describe anumber of systems, explaining the different mathematical formalisms developedto understand SOC. The final chapter assesses the impact of this field ofstudy, and highlights some key areas of new research. The author assumes noprevious knowledge of the field, and the book contains several exercises. Itwill be ideal as a textbook for graduate students taking physics, engineering,or mathematical biology courses in nonlinear science or complexity. SN - 0521483719 TI - Self-Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems PB - Cambridge University Press KW - biology KW - physics KW - self-organised_criticality AU - Jensen, Henrik PY - 1998/01/13/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0521483719 ER -