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2 Table of Contents: “...Operational Approaches to Complex Systems. An Introduction -- I Evolution -- Effects of Finite...”

3 “... with a microscopic or mesoscopic description of a complex system. In this book we present an approach...”

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5 “...This book presents a novel approach to neural nets and thus offers a genuine alternative...”

6 “... sciences, in the cognitive sciences andin physics. It provides the reader with a novel approach...”

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8 Table of Contents: “... and their conjunction (SIRNIA) -- Formalism I. Bottom-up approach: From parts to order parameters -- Steady states...”

9 Table of Contents: “... Approaches -- Hopf-Landau Bifurcation Near Strange Attractors -- Dispersive Instabilities in Nonlinear...”

10 Table of Contents: “... basis of information adaptation -- A complexity theory approach to information -- On synergetic...”

11 Table of Contents: “...* An Approach to Irreversible Thermodynamics --...”

12 Table of Contents: “...VII. The semiclassical approach and its applications -- VII.1. Spirit of the semiclassical approach...”

13 Table of Contents: “... and New Experimental Approaches -- II Network Models -- Experiments with Representation in Neural Networks...”

14 Table of Contents: “... Approaches -- Bifurcation and Nonlinear Focusing --...”

15 Table of Contents: “... Instabilities, or an Elementary Approach to Thom’s Theory of Catastrophes -- 6. Chance and Necessity -- 6.1...”

16 “.... Haken in 1969, deals with the systematic and methodological approach to the rapidly growing field...”

17 Table of Contents: “...-Organization in Continuously Extended Media. An Outline of the Mathematical Approach -- 7.7 Generalized...”

18 Table of Contents: “... Fields -- 2 Theoretical Approaches -- 2. 1 Pattern Formation in the Inanimate World -- Pattern Selection...”

19 Table of Contents: “...2.8 Group Theoretical Interpretation -- 2.9 Perturbation Approach* -- 3. Linear Ordinary...”

20 Table of Contents: “... and Symmetry Operations: A First Overview -- 6 Symmetries and Symmetry Operations. A Systematic Approach -- 7...”