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Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
542
Category
Library

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Introduction to Complexity and Complex SystemsIntroduction to Complexity Why Study Complex Systems?Human Responses to Complexity Complex Systems Engineering Chapter Summary Introduction to Large Linear SystemsIntroduction Linearity, Causality & Stationarity L TI System Tools Impulse Response, Frequency Response and Real Convolution Systems Described by Large Sets of Linear ODEs Stability of Linear Systems Signal Read more...


Abstract: Introduction to Complexity and Complex SystemsIntroduction to Complexity Why Study Complex Systems?Human Responses to Complexity Complex Systems Engineering Chapter Summary Introduction to Large Linear SystemsIntroduction Linearity, Causality & Stationarity L TI System Tools Impulse Response, Frequency Response and Real Convolution Systems Described by Large Sets of Linear ODEs Stability of Linear Systems Signal Flow Graphs and Mason's Rule Chapter Summary Introduction to Nonlinear Biochemical Systems and Biochemical OscillatorsIntroduction Some General Properties of NonIinear Systems All Livi

✦ Table of Contents


Content: Front Cover
Contents
Preface
Author
1. Introduction to Complexity and Complex Systems
2. Introduction to Large Linear Systems
3. Introduction to Biochemical Oscillators and Complex, Nonlinear Biochemical Systems
4. Modularity, Redundancy, Degeneracy, Pleiotropy, and Robustness in Complex Biological Systems
5. Evolution of Biological Complexity: Invertebrate Immune Systems
6. Complex Adaptive and Innate Human Immune Systems
7. Complexity in Quasispecies and MicroRNAs
8. Introduction to Physiological Complexity: Examples of Models of Some Complex Physiological Systems 9. Quest for Quantitative Measures of Complexity10. "Irreducible" and "Specified Complexity "in Living Systems
11. Introduction to Complexity in Economic Systems
12. Dealing with Complexity
Appendix A: Simnonβ„’ Programs Used in Chapters 3 and 8
Appendix B: How to Use Root Locus to Determine the Stability of SISO Linear Control Systems
Appendix C: Bode Plots
Appendix D: Nyquist Plots
Glossary
Bibliography and Related Readings
Back Cover

✦ Subjects


Biocomplexity. Biomedical Technology. Biophysical Phenomena. Chaotic behavior in systems. Complexity (Philosophy). Models, Theoretical.


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