50th Anniversary of the Metaphorical Butterfly Effect since Lorenz (1972)
50th Anniversary of the Metaphorical Butterfly Effect since Lorenz (1972)

Author: Bo-Wen Shen

Publisher: MDPI AG

Published: 2023-10-11

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 3036589104

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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the metaphorical butterfly effect, born from Edward Lorenz's 1963 work on initial condition sensitivity. In 1972, it became a metaphor for illustrating how minor changes could yield an organized system. Lorenz Models: Chaos & Regime Changes Explore Lorenz models' 1960-2008 evolution, chaos theory, and attractors. Unraveling High-dimensional Instability Challenge norms in "Butterfly Effect without Chaos?" as non-chaotic elements contribute uniquely. Modeling Atmospheric Dynamics Delve into atmospheric dynamics via "Storm Sensitivity Study." Navigating Data Assimilation Explore data assimilation's dance in chaotic and nonchaotic settings via the observability Gramian. Chaos, Instability, Sensitivities Explore chaos, instability, and sensitivities with Lorenz 1963 & 1969 models. Unraveling Tropical Mysteries Investigate tropical atmospheric instability, uncovering oscillation origins and cloud-radiation interactions. Chaos and Order Enter atmospheric regimes, exploring attractor coexistence and predictability. The Art of Prediction Peer into predictability realms, tracing the "butterfly effect's" impact on predictions. Navigating Typhoons Journey through typhoons, exploring rainfall and typhoon trajectory prediction. Analyzing Sea Surface Temperature Examine nonlinear analysis for classification. Computational Fluid Dynamics Immerse in geophysical fluid dynamics progress, simulating atmospheric phenomena.

A Nature-Inspired Approach to Cryptology
A Nature-Inspired Approach to Cryptology

Author: Shishir Kumar Shandilya

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9819970814

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This book introduces nature-inspired algorithms and their applications to modern cryptography. It helps the readers to get into the field of nature-based approaches to solve complex cryptographic issues. This book provides a comprehensive view of nature-inspired research which could be applied in cryptography to strengthen security. It will also explore the novel research directives such as Clever algorithms and immune-based cyber resilience. New experimented nature-inspired approaches are having enough potential to make a huge impact in the field of cryptanalysis. This book gives a lucid introduction to this exciting new field and will promote further research in this domain. The book discusses the current landscape of cryptography and nature-inspired research and will be helpful to prospective students and professionals to explore further.

Chaos and Fractals
Chaos and Fractals

Author: David P. Feldman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-08-09

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0199566445

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For students with a background in elementary algebra, this book provides a vivid introduction to the key phenomena and ideas of chaos and fractals, including the butterfly effect, strange attractors, fractal dimensions, Julia Sets and the Mandelbrot Set, power laws, and cellular automata. The book includes over 200 end-of-chapter exercises.

Order on the Edge of Chaos
Order on the Edge of Chaos

Author: Edward J. Lawler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-09

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1107076757

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Order on the Edge of Chaos answers the question: how do people today create and sustain order in their lives and in their groups?

Hendrik Petrus Berlage
Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Author: Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0892363339

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Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body of writings from 1886 to 1909 that were among the first efforts to probe the problems and possibilities of modernism. Although his Amsterdam Stock Exchange, with its rational mastery of materials and space, has long been celebrated for its seminal influence on the architecture of the 20th century, Berlage's writings are highlighted here. Bringing together Berlage's most important texts, among them "Thoughts on Style in Architecture", "Architecture's Place in Modern Aesthetics", and "Art and Society", this volume presents a chapter in the history of European modernism. In his introduction, Iain Boyd Whyte demonstrates that the substantial contribution of Berlage's designs to modern architecture cannot be fully appreciated without an understanding of the aesthetic principles first laid out in his writings.

Galileo Unbound
Galileo Unbound

Author: David D. Nolte

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-07-12

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0192528505

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Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird
The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

Author: Herbert A. Simon

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0262537532

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Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird. Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including economic systems, the business firm, artificial intelligence, complex engineering projects, and social plans, Simon argues that designed systems are a valid field of study, and he proposes a science of design. For this third edition, originally published in 1996, Simon added new material that takes into account advances in cognitive psychology and the science of design while confirming and extending the book's basic thesis: that a physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for intelligent action. Simon won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978 for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations and the Turing Award (considered by some the computer science equivalent to the Nobel) with Allen Newell in 1975 for contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing. The Sciences of the Artificial distills the essence of Simon's thought accessibly and coherently. This reissue of the third edition makes a pioneering work available to a new audience.

Price Wars
Price Wars

Author: Rupert Russell

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: 2022-02-01

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 038554586X

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A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war. • With a new Afterword for the ebook. For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cages on the U.S. border. In Price Wars, he sets out on a worldwide journey to investigate what caused the wave of chaos that consumed the world in the 2010s. Russell travels to Tunisia, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine, East Africa, and Central America and discovers that unrest in all these places was triggered by dramatic and mysterious swings in the price of essential commodities. Deregulation of the commodities markets means that food prices can shoot up even in years of abundant harvests, causing hunger and protest. Oil prices and real-estate values can surge even when supplies are normal, enriching and emboldening dictators. It is this instability--fueled by banks and hedge funds in faraway New York and London--that has toppled regimes and unsettled the West. Price Wars is a fascinating, original, and groundbreaking exposé of the power of the commodities markets to disrupt the world.

A Theory of Intergenerational Justice
A Theory of Intergenerational Justice

Author: Joerg Chet Tremmel

Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1849774366

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This highly accessible book provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how we should protect future generations. It exposes how and why the interests of people today and those of future generations are often in conflict and what can be done. It rebuts critical concepts such as Parfits' non-identity paradox and Beckerman's denial of any possibility of intergenerational justice. The core of the book is the lucid application of a veil of ignorance to derive principles of intergenerational justice which show that our duties to posterity are stronger than is often supposed. Tremmel's approach demands that each generation both consider and improve the well-being of future generations. To measure the well-being of future generations Tremmel employs the Human Development Index rather than the metrics of utilitarian subjective happiness. The book thus answers in detailed, concrete terms the two most important questions of every theory of intergenerational justice: what to sustain? and how much to sustain?

Theories of Development
Theories of Development

Author: William Crain

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2015-10-02

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1317343212

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The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on how we develop as individuals. Emphasizing the theories that build upon the developmental tradition established by Rousseau, this text also covers theories in the environmental/learning tradition.