World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems
(ISSN: 1793-1037)
Series Editor
Professor A S Mikhailov (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany)
Email: mikhailov@fhi-berlin.mpg.de
Advisory Board Members
B Huberman (Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, USA)
K Kaneko (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ph Maini (Oxford University, UK)
Q Ouyang (Peking University, China)
Aims and Scope
A wide range of scientific disciplines study complex systems in which nonlinear interactions between many elements play a crucial role. Such interactions bring about qualitatively new structures which determine the behaviour of the entire system, but are not reducible to a sum of individual effects. Despite the great diversity in the nature of possible complex systems they all rely on essentially the same principles of autonomous organization and hierarchical control. Consequently, the mathematical models employed to describe the emergence of coherent cooperative behaviour tend to be similar.
The aim of this new interdisciplinary series is to promote the exchange of information between scientists working in different fields, who are involved in the study of complex systems, and to foster education and training of young scientists entering this rapidly developing research area.
The scope of the series is broad and will include: Statistical physics of large nonequilibrium systems; problems of nonlinear pattern formation in chemistry; complex organization of intracellular processes and biochemical networks of a living cell; various aspects of cell-to-cell communication; behaviour of bacterial colonies; neural networks; functioning and organization of animal populations and large ecological systems; modeling complex social phenomena;
applications of statistical mechanics to studies of economics and financial markets; multi-agent robotics and collective intelligence; the emergence and evolution of large-scale communication networks; general mathematical studies of complex cooperative behaviour in large systems.
Because of the intended broad interdisciplinary readership, authors should aim to make their presentation accessible to those outside of their research field. Moreover, an attempt needs to be made to unify the essential terminology related to internal organization and pattern formation in complex systems of various origins.
The emphasis in this series will be on the publication of introductory texts. However, high-quality monographs and proceedings of national or international meetings dealing with complex systems will also be considered.
Published titles
Vol. 1
Nonlinear Dynamics: From Lasers to Butterflies
Selected Lectures from the 15th Canberra International Physics Summer School
edited by R Ball & N Akhmediev
Vol. 2
Emergence of Dynamical Order
Synchronization Phenomena in Complex Systems
by Susanna C Manrubia, Alexander S Mikhailov & Damián H Zanette
Vol. 3
Networks of Interacting Machines
Production Organization in Complex Industrial Systems and Biological Cells
edited by Dieter Armbruster, Kunihiko Kaneko & Alexander S Mikhailov
Vol. 4
Lecture Notes on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media
edited by Michael Shats & Horst Punzmann
Vol. 5
Analysis and Control of Complex Nonlinear Processes in Physics, Chemistry and Biology
edited by L Schimansky-Geier, B Fiedler, J Kurths & E Schöll
Vol. 6
Frontiers in Turbulence and Coherent Structures
Proceedings of the COSNet/CSIRO Workshop on Turbulence and Coherent Structures in Fluids, Plasmas and Nonlinear Media
edited by Jim Denier & Jorgen S Frederiksen
Vol. 7
Complex Population Dynamics
Nonlinear Modeling in Ecology, Epidemiology and Genetics
edited by Bernd Blasius, Jürgen Kurths & Lewi Stone
Vol. 8
Granular and Complex Materials
edited by T Aste, T Di Matteo & A Tordesillas
Forthcoming title
Handbook on Biological Networks
edited by Stefano Boccaletti, Vito Latora & Yamir Moreno