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Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-Based Modeling Techniques for Simulating Social and Ecological Processes
This volume presents a set of coherent, cross-referenced perspectives on incorporating the spatial representation and analytical power of GIS with agent-based modelling of evolutionary and non-linear processes and phenomena. Many recent advances in software algorithms for incorporating geographic data in modeling social and ecological behaviors, and successes in applying such algorithms, had not been adequately reported in the literature. This book seeks to serve as the standard guide to this broad area.
Nonextensive Entropy
Preface, Murray Gell-Mann and Constantino Tsallis. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics: Construction and Physical Interpretation, Constantino Tsallis. Generalized Nonadditive Information Theory and Quantum Entanglement, Sumiyoshi Abe. Unifying Laws in Multidisciplinary Power-Law Phenomena: Fixed-Point Universality and Nonextensive Entropy, Alberto Robledo. Nonextensive Entropies and Sensitivity to Initial Conditions of Complex Systems, Marcelo L. Lyra. Numerical Analysis of Conservative Maps: A Possible Foundation of Nonextensive Phenomena, Fulvio Baldovin. Nonextensive Effects in Hamiltonian S.
New Constructions in Cellular Automata
This book not only discusses cellular automata (CA) as accouterment for simulation, but also the actual building of devices within cellular automata. CA are widely used tools for simulation in physics, ecology, mathematics, and other fields. But they are also digital "toy universes" worthy of study in their own right, with their own laws of physics and behavior. In studying CA for their own sake, we must look at constructive methods, that is the practice of actually building devices in a given CA that store and process in formation, replicate, and propagate themselves, and interact with other devices in complex ways. By building such machines, we learn what the CA's dynamics are capable of, and build an intuition about how to "engineer" the machine we want. We can also address fundamental questions, such as whether universal computation or even "living" things that reproduce and evolve can exist in the CA's digital world, and perhaps, how these things came to be in out own universe.
Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics
Computer science and physics have been closely linked since the birth of modern computing. In recent years, an interdisciplinary area has blossomed at the junction of these fields, connecting insights from statistical physics with basic computational challenges. Researchers have successfully applied techniques from the study of phase transitions to analyze NP-complete problems such as satisfiability and graph coloring. This is leading to a new understanding of the structure of these problems, and of how algorithms perform on them. Computational Complexity and Statistical Physics will serve as a standard reference and pedagogical aid to statistical physics methods in computer science, with a particular focus on phase transitions in combinatorial problems. Addressed to a broad range of readers, the book includes substantial background material along with current research by leading computer scientists, mathematicians, and physicists. It will prepare students and researchers from all of these fields to contribute to this exciting area.
Climate Vulnerability, Volume 4
Climate Vulnerability, Volume 4
Modeling Extinction
In the last decade or so, scientists have started to examine a new approach to the patterns of evolution and extinction in the fossil record. This approach may be called "statistical paleontology," since it looks at large-scale patterns in the record and attempts to understand and model their average statistical features, rather than their detailed structure. This book, developed after a meeting at the Santa Fe Institute on extinction modeling, comments critically on the various modeling approaches.
Ecological Networks
Food webs are one of the most useful, and challenging, objects of study in ecology. These networks of predator-prey interactions, conjured in Darwin's image of a "tangled bank," provide a paradigmatic example of complex adaptive systems. This book is based on a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop. Its authors treat the ecology of predator-prey interactions, food web theory, structure and dynamics. The book explores the boundaries of what is known of the relationship between structure and dynamics in ecological networks and will define directions for future developments in this field.
Swarm Intelligence
This book provides a rigorous look at the mechanisms underlying collective behavior in social insects. The field is developing rapidly, and the book includes up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics.
Sensory Design
Malnar (architecture, U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign) and Vodvarka (fine arts, Loyala U. Chicago) explore the nature of sensory response to the spatial constructs that people invest with meaning, ranging from buildings of various sorts and purposes to gardens to constructions of fantasy. These responses can serve as a typology for the design of si
Robust Design
'Robust Design' brings together an eminent group of authors in a wide range of fields presenting aspects of robustness in biological, ecological and computational systems.
