Untangling Complex Systems - A Grand Challenge for Science

List of contents

Introduction.
Reversibility or Irreversibility? That is the Question!
Out-of-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.
An amazing scientific voyage: from equilibrium up to self-organization through bifurcations.
The emergence of temporal order in ecosystems.
The emergence of temporal order in economy.
The emergence of temporal order within a living being.
The emergence of temporal order in a chemical laboratory.
The emergence of order in space.
The emergence of chaos in time.
Chaos in space: The Fractals.
Complex Systems
How to untangle Complex Systems?
Appendix A: Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations
Appendix B: The Maximum Entropy Method
Appendix C: Fourier Transform of Waveforms
Appendix D: Errors and Uncertainties in Laboratory Experiments
Appendix E: Errors in Numerical Computation

About the author

Pier Luigi Gentili is Ph.D. in Chemistry. His research and teaching activities are focused on Complex Systems. He is trusting in Natural Computing as an effective strategy to understand Complex Systems and face the Computational Complexity Challenges. In particular, he is developing the innovative Chemical Artificial Intelligence. He has several collaborations and work experience in many laboratories. For instance, the "Photochemistry and Photophysics Group" of the University of Perugia (Italy); the "Nonlinear Dynamics Group" of the Brandeis University (USA); the "European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy" in Florence (Italy); the "Center for Photochemical Sciences" of the Bowling Green State University (USA); the "Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Photochemistry" of University of Siena (Italy).
ORCID: 0000-0003-1092-9190.

Summary

This book presents the new challenges that the science of the twentieth century is facing. A distinctive feature of this book is the description of Fuzzy Logic as a powerful method to understand and control complex systems. This book also presents the different kinds of logic that can be processed by using molecules as computing elements.

Product details

• Authors: Pier Luigi Gentili, Pier Luigi (University of Perugia Gentili
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781466509429
• ISBN: 978-1-4665-0942-9
• No. of pages: 568
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Physical & Theoretical, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, SCIENCE / Chaotic Behavior in Systems, SCIENCE / System Theory, MATHEMATICS / Complex Analysis, MATHEMATICS / Arithmetic, Physical Chemistry, Mathematical physics, Systems analysis & design, Systems analysis and design, Distributed systems, Neural networks and fuzzy systems, Neural networks & fuzzy systems