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Information and self-organization [electronic resource] : a macroscopic approach to complex systems / Hermann Haken

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Haken, H.
Published
Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Edition
3rd enl. ed.
Physical Description
1 volume
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SpringerLink (Online service)
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Contents
The Challenge of Complex Systems -- From the Microscopic to the Macroscopic World ... -- ... and Back Again: The Maximum Information Principle (MIP) -- An Example from Physics: Thermodynamics -- Application of the Maximum Information Principle to Self-Organizing Systems -- The Maximum Information Principle for Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions: Determination of Order Parameters, Enslaved Modes, and Emerging Patterns -- Information, Information Gain, and Efficiency of Self-Organizing Systems Close to Their Instability Points -- Direct Determination of Lagrange Multipliers -- Unbiased Modeling of Stochastic Processes: How to Guess Path Integrals, Fokker-Planck Equations and Langevin-Ito Equations -- Application to Some Physical Systems -- Transitions Between Behavioral Patterns in Biology. An Example: Hand Movements -- Pattern Recognition. Unbiased Guesses of Processes: Explicit Determination of Lagrange Multipliers -- Information Compression in Cognition: The Interplay between Shannon and Semantic Information -- Quantum Systems -- Quantum Information -- Quantum Computation -- Concluding Remarks and Outlook
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9783540330233
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [244]-250) and index.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Berlin : Springer, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available via SpringerLink.
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