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Micro, meso, macro : addressing complex systems couplings

Tác giả: Hans Liljenstrom, Uno Svedin

In the domain of science concerned with systems structure and behavior, the issue of the relationship between the micro and the macro level is of key importance. This book concentrates on the interplay between these levels and has a special focus on the level "in between" -- the meso level.An ...

Introduction to A-trees

Tác giả: Ian Chiswell

The theory of Λ-trees has its origin in the work of Lyndon on length functions in groups. The first definition of an R-tree was given by Tits in 1977. The importance of Λ-trees was established by Morgan and Shalen, who showed how to compactify a generalisation of Teichmüller space for a finitely ...

SARS war : combating the disease

Tác giả: Leung Ping Chung, Ooi Eng Eong

In this book, the global SARS outbreak is traced and described, with a focus on the regions where the most infections have been identified. An overview of the whole saga is presented: how the disease spreads; how governments react; how societies and people cope and how health experts work fervently ...

Thinking about Gödel and Turing : essays on complexity, 1970-2007

Tác giả: Gregory J. Chaitin

Contains 23 non-technical papers. This book includes essays which summarize a lifetime effort to use the notion of program-size complexity or algorithmic information content in order to shed further light on the fundamental work of Godel and Turing on the limits of mathematical methods, both in ...

Random walk, sequential analysis and related topics : a Festschrift in honor of Yuan-Shih Chow

Tác giả: Agnes Chao Hsiung, Zhiliang Ying, Cun-Hui Zhang

This volume is a collection of papers in celebration of the 80th birthday of Yuan-Shih Chow, whose influential work in probability and mathematical statistics has contributed greatly to mathematics education and the development of statistics research and application in Taiwan and mainland China.The ...