Synergetics — From Microscopic to Macroscopic Order Proceedings of the International Symposium on Synergetics at Berlin, July 4–8, 1983 / edited by E. Frehland.

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Other Authors: Frehland, E. (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1984.
Edition:1st ed. 1984.
Series:Springer Series in Synergetics, 22
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Table of Contents:
  • Some Introductory Remarks on Synergetics
  • I Order, Chaos, Indeterminancies
  • Time Pattern Transitions in Biochemical Processes
  • Chaotic Behaviours Observed in Homogeneous Chemical Systems
  • Wave-Number Selection in Rotating Couette-Taylor Flow
  • Periodic and Chaotic Patterns in Selected Quantum Optical Systems
  • Chaos in Lasers
  • The Falling Pencil and Superfluorescence: Macroscopic Indeterminacies After the Decay of Unstable Equilibria
  • II Ordered Structures and Processes in Biomembranes
  • On the Formation of Transient Order in Biological Membranes
  • Generalized Moment Description of Brownian Dynamics in Biological Systems
  • Nonequilibrium Current Noise Generated by Ordered Ion Transport Processes in Biological Membranes
  • The Molecular Machine of Photosynthesis-Physico-Chemical Aspects
  • III Evolution of Structures
  • Polynucleotide Replication and Biological Evolution
  • The Evolution Strategy. A Mathematical Model of Darwinian Evolution
  • Multigene Families and their Implications for Evolutionary Theory
  • Evolution of Biothermodynamic Systems
  • Self-Organising Dynamic Models of Human Systems
  • IV Social Sciences
  • Some Applications of Basic Ideas and Models of Synergetics to Sociology
  • A Synergetic Approach to Energy-Oriented Models of Socio-Economic- Technological Problems
  • New Synergisms in Socio-Economic Systems: More Questions than Answers
  • On the Entropy of Economic Systems
  • V Complex Systems
  • Death - From Microscopic to Macroscopic Disorder
  • Local Synaptic Modification Can Lead to Organized Connectivity Patterns in Associative Memory
  • The Organization of Action in Time
  • New Problems for an Old Brain - Synergetics, Cognition and Evolutionary Epistemology
  • Index of Contributors.