Energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization : the fundamental elements of life and society / Spyros G. Tzafestas.

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Energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization : the fundamental elements of life and society / Spyros G. Tzafestas.

9783319669991 (electronic book)
3319669990 (electronic book)
9783319669984
3319669982

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

©2018

English

1 online resource.

10.1007/978-3-319-66999-1 doi

Q175.5

303.48/3

"This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy definitions, energy, branches of thermodynamics, entropy interpretations, arrow of time); information (communication and transmission, modulation-demodulation, coding-decoding, information theory, information technology, information science, information systems); feedback control (history, classical methodologies, modern methodologies); adaptation (definition, mechanisms, measurement, complex adaptive systems, complexity, emergence); and self-organization (definitions/opinions, self-organized criticality, cybernetics, self-organization in complex adaptive systems, examples in nature). In turn, Part II studies the roles, impacts, and applications of the five above-mentioned elements in life and society, namely energy (biochemical energy pathways, energy flows through food chains, evolution of energy resources, energy and economy); information (information in biology, biocomputation, information technology in office automation, power generation/distribution, manufacturing, business, transportation), feedback (temperature, water, sugar and hydrogen ion regulation, autocatalysis, biological modeling, control of hard/technological and soft/managerial systems), adaptation and self-organization (ecosystems, climate change, stock market, knowledge management, man-made self-organized controllers, traffic lights control)."-- Provided by publisher.

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International series on intelligent systems, control and automation--science and engineering ; v. 90.

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