Overview

Bifurcation theory has made a very fast upswing in the last fifteen years. Roughly speaking it generalises to dynamic systems the pos­ sibility of mUltiple solutions, a possibility already recognised in static systems - physical, chemical, social - when operating far from their equilibrium states. It so happened that quite a few staff members of the Erasmus University Rotterdam were thinking along those lines about certain aspects of their disciplines. To have a number of specialists and potential ""fans"" convene to discuss various aspects of bifurcation­ al thinking, seemed a natural development. The resulting papers were judged to be of interest to a larger public, and as such are logically regrouped in this volume, one in a series of studies resulting from the activities of the Steering Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies of the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Although the volume is perhaps multidisciplinary rather than interdisciplinary - the interdisciplinary aspect being only ""latent"" -, as a ""soft"" interdisciplinary exercise (the application of formal structures of one discipline to another) it has a right to interdisciplinary existence! This book could not have been published without a generous grant of the University Foundation of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, which allowed the conference to be held and the resulting papers to be published; that generosity is gratefully acknowledged.

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Author:   Michiel Hazewinkel ,  R. Jurkovich ,  J.H.P. Pealinck
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.421kg
ISBN:  

9789400962415

ISBN 10:   940096241
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   12 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A. Principles.- Self-Organisation in Non-Equilibrium Systems: Towards a Dynamics of Complexity.- Bifurcation Phenomena. A Short Introductory Tutorial with Examples.- Bifurcation and Choice Behaviour in Complex Systems.- B. Applications.- Some Remarks on the Nature of Structure and Metabolism in Living Matter.- The Analysis of Bifurcation Phenomena Associated with the Evolution of Urban Spatial Structure.- Bifurcation Sets — An Application to Urban Economics.- Nerves and Switches in Conflict Control Systems.- Bifurcation as a Model of Description — A Means of Making the Historiography of Philosophy More Historical?.- Space and Order Looked at Critically. Non-Comparability and Procedural Substantivism in History and the Social Sciences.- C. Synthesis.- Symmetry, Bifurcation and Pattern Formation.- Synergetic and Resonance Aspects of Interdisciplinary Research.- Bifurcation: Implications of the Concept for the Study of Organisations.

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