Understanding Complex Systems
Founding Editor: J.A. Scott Kelso
Future scientific and technological developments in many fields will necessarily depend upon coming to grips with complex systems. Such systems are complex in both their composition - typically many different kinds of components interacting simultaneously and nonlinearly with each other and their environments on multiple levels - and in the rich diversity of behavior of which they are capable.
The Springer Series in Understanding Complex Systems series (UCS) promotes new strategies and paradigms for understanding and realizing applications of complex systems research in a wide variety of fields and endeavors. UCS is explicitly transdisciplinary. It has three main goals: First, to elaborate the concepts, methods and tools of complex systems at all levels of description and in all scientific fields, especially newly emerging areas within the life, social, behavioral, economic, neuro- and cognitive sciences (and derivatives thereof); second, to encourage novel applications of these ideas in various fields of engineering and computation such as robotics, nano-technology and informatics; third, to provide a single forum within which commonalities and differences in the workings of complex systems may be discerned, hence leading to deeper insight and understanding.
UCS will publish monographs, lecture notes and selected edited contributions aimed at communicating new findings to a large multidisciplinary audience.
Editorial and Programme Advisory Board
Péter Erdi
Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, USA and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
Karl Friston
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK
Hermann Haken
Center of Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Janusz Kacprzyk
System Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Jürgen Kurths
Nonlinear Dynamics Group, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Linda Reichl
Center for Complex Quantum Systems, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Peter Schuster
Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Frank Schweitzer
System Design, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Didier Sornette
Entrepreneurial Risk, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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