UID:
almahu_9948026448602882
Format:
1 online resource (287 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-64175-4
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9786610641758
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0-08-046202-2
Series Statement:
Monograph series on nonlinear science and complexity ; 1
Content:
The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in individuals, for the living world around us.* Interdisciplinary coverage* Research oriented* Contains and explains programs* Based on recent discoveries* Little special knowledge required besides programming* Suitable for undergraduate and graduate research projects
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Evolution; Linearity; Chaos; Nonlinearity; The edge of chaos; Complexity and criticality; Mean-field theories; Scaling; Biological evolution; A simple evolutionary model; Another simple model; Conclusions; Biological Ageing; Facts and theories; Facts; Theories; Penna model: asexual; Basic model; Applications and modifications; Plasticity; Penna model: sexual; Basic model; Applications and modifications; Scaling; Other models; * Additional remarks; Eve effect; Antagonistic pleiotropy; Grandmother effect; Conclusions; Biological Speciation
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Sympatric speciationMinimal model: Speciation defined by a single bit; Speciation defined by a single phenotypic trait; Results without sexual selection; Results with assortative mating; Speciation in a food chain; Two-species food chain; Three-species food chain; Phase transition in the sympatric speciation process; Models with two phenotypic traits; Conclusions; Parapatric speciation; * Many-species models; The Bak-Sneppen model; Lineage branching; Ecosystems; Languages; Empirical facts; Differential equations; Agent-based simulations; Two languages; Many languages: Homogeneous systems
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Many languages: Mixing, nucleation, interface* Wang-Minett model; * Additional remarks; Conclusions; Social Sciences; Retirement demography; Mortality and birth rates; Extrapolation; Mortality deceleration?; Conclusions; Self-organisation of hierarchies; Opinion dynamics; Before 2000; Ising-type models; Galam conservatism; Axelrod multiculturality; Three recent models; Negotiators; Opportunists; Missionaries; Applications; * Additional remarks; Cluster sizes; Ising comparison; Several themes; Extreme events; Parties; Simultaneous updating; Terrorism; Conclusions; * Traffic jams; * Networks
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Small worldScale free (BA); Selected properties of BA networks; Modifications of BA networks; Neural networks; * Social percolation; * Legal physics; Earthquakes; Computational models for earthquakes; Short-range interactions; Long-range interactions; The Rundle-Jackson-Brown model; Precursory dynamics; Conclusion; Summary; Appendix: Programs; Single-bit handling; Ageing in Penna model; Bak-Sneppen evolution; Language competition; Retirement demography; Car traffic; Scale-free networks; Neural Hopfield-Hebb networks; References*; Subject Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-52146-1
Language:
English
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