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This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy definitions, energy, branches of thermodynamics, entropy interpretations, arrow of time); information (communication and transmission, modulation–demodulation, coding–decoding, information theory, information technology, information science, information systems); feedback control (history, classical methodologies, modern methodologies); adaptation (definition, mechanisms, measurement, complex adaptive systems, complexity, emergence); and self-organization (definitions/opinions, self-organized criticality, cybernetics, self-organization in complex adaptive systems, examples in nature).
In turn, Part II studies the roles,impacts, and applications of the five above-mentioned elements in life and society, namely energy (biochemical energy pathways, energy flows through food chains, evolution of energy resources, energy and economy); information (information in biology, biocomputation, information technology in office automation, power generation/distribution, manufacturing, business, transportation), feedback (temperature, water, sugar and hydrogen ion regulation, autocatalysis, biological modeling, control of hard/technological and soft/managerial systems), adaptation and self-organization (ecosystems, climate change, stock market, knowledge management, man-made self-organized controllers, traffic lights control).
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783319669984
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-66998-4
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 15.01.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2018
- Serie: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1317 g
- Seiten: 668
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 40 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt