Isbn: 9781461426813 - modeling complex systems (graduate texts in physics) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The essential points of this rst chapter are - The de nition of a complex system - The notion of emergence - The de nition of a model - The notion of dynamical system This book is about the dynamics of complex systems. Roughly speaking, a system is a collection of interacting elements making up a whole such as, for instance, a mechanical clock. While many systems may be quite complicated, they are not necessarily considered to be complex. Today, most authors agree on the essential properties a system has to possess to be called complex. The rst section is devoted to the description of these properties. To interpret the time evolution of a system, scientists build up models, which are simpli ed mathematical representations of the system. The exact purpose of a model and what its essential features should be is explained in the second section. The mathematical models that will be discussed in this book are dynami- 1 calsystems. A dynamical system is essentially a set of equations whose- lutiondescribesthe evolution,asafunction oftime, ofthe state ofthe system. There exist di erent types of dynamical systems. Some of them are de ned in the third section. 1 There is an extensive literature on mathematical modeling. The reader may, for example, consult [11,88,163,233]. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Modeling Complex Systems | Nino Boccara | Taschenbuch | xviii | Englisch | 2012 | Springer Nature B.V. | EAN 9781461426813 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …