Modeling Multi-Level Systems Hardback
by Octavian Iordache
Part of the Understanding Complex Systems series
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This book is devoted to modeling of multi-level complex systems, a challenging domain for engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs, confronted with the transition from learning and adaptability to evolvability and autonomy for technologies, devices and problem solving methods.
Chapter 1 introduces the multi-scale and multi-level systems and highlights their presence in different domains of science and technology.
Methodologies as, random systems, non-Archimedean analysis, category theory and specific techniques as model categorification and integrative closure, are presented in chapter 2.
Chapters 3 and 4 describe polystochastic models, PSM, and their developments.
Categorical formulation of integrative closure offers the general PSM framework which serves as a flexible guideline for a large variety of multi-level modeling problems. Focusing on chemical engineering, pharmaceutical and environmental case studies, the chapters 5 to 8 analyze mixing, turbulent dispersion and entropy production for multi-scale systems.
Taking inspiration from systems sciences, chapters 9 to 11 highlight multi-level modeling potentialities in formal concept analysis, existential graphs and evolvable designs of experiments.
Case studies refer to separation flow-sheets, pharmaceutical pipeline, drug design and development, reliability management systems, security and failure analysis.
Perspectives and integrative points of view are discussed in chapter 12.
Autonomous and viable systems, multi-agents, organic and autonomic computing, multi-level informational systems, are revealed as promising domains for future applications. Written for: engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs and students in chemical, pharmaceutical, environmental and systems sciences engineering, and for applied mathematicians.
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- Pages:232 pages, XV, 232 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:07/02/2011
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- ISBN:9783642179457
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, XV, 232 p.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Publication Date:07/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9783642179457
