Optimality Principles in Biology
Author: Robert Rosen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1489964193
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Author: Robert Rosen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1489964193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yuriy P. Kondratenko
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2022-09-01
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 1000794067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdvanced Control Systems: Theory and Applications provides an overview of advanced research lines in control systems as well as in design, development and implementation methodologies for perspective control systems and their components in different areas of industrial and special applications. It consists of extended versions of the selected papers presented at the XXV International Conference on Automatic Control “Automatics 2018” (September 18-19, 2018, Lviv, Ukraine) which is the main Ukrainian Control Conference organized by Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control (National member organization of IFAC) and Lviv National University “Lvivska Politechnica”. More than 100 papers were presented at the conference with topics including: mathematical problems of control, optimization and game theory; control and identification under uncertainty; automated control of technical, technological and biotechnical objects; controlling the aerospace craft, marine vessels and other moving objects; intelligent control and information processing; mechatronics and robotics; information measuring technologies in automation; automation and IT training of personnel; the Internet of things and the latest technologies. The book is divided into two main parts, the first concerning theory (7 chapters) and the second concerning applications (7 chapters) of advanced control systems. The first part “Advances in Theoretical Research on Automatic Control” consists of theoretical research results which deal with descriptor control impulsive delay systems, motion control in condition of conflict, inverse dynamic models, invariant relations in optimal control, robust adaptive control, bio-inspired algorithms, optimization of fuzzy control systems, and extremal routing problem with constraints and complicated cost functions. The second part “Advances in Control Systems Applications” is based on the chapters which consider different aspects of practical implementation of advanced control systems, in particular, special cases in determining the spacecraft position and attitude using computer vision system, the spacecraft orientation by information from a system of stellar sensors, control synthesis of rotational and spatial spacecraft motion at approaching stage of docking, intelligent algorithms for the automation of complex biotechnical objects, an automatic control system for the slow pyrolysis of organic substances with variable composition, simulation complex of hierarchical systems based on the foresight and cognitive modelling, and advanced identification of impulse processes in cognitive maps. The chapters have been structured to provide an easy-to-follow introduction to the topics that are addressed, including the most relevant references, so that anyone interested in this field can get started in the area. This book may be useful for researchers and students who are interesting in advanced control systems.
Author: Gabriele A. Losa
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-03-30
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 3764374128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is number four in a series of proceedings volumes from the International Symposia on Fractals in Biology and Medicine in Ascona, Switzerland which have been inspired by the work of Benoît Mandelbrot seeking to extend the concepts towards the life sciences. It highlights the potential that fractal geometry offers for elucidating and explaining the complex make-up of cells, tissues and biological organisms either in normal or in pathological conditions.
Author: Sara Green
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 3319470000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modelling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big data influence research practices? What are the major challenges for biomedical research in the years to come? This book addresses such questions of relevance not only to philosophers and biologists but also to readers interested in the broader implications of systems biology for science and society. The book features reflections and original work by experts from across the disciplines including systems biologists, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars investigating the social and educational aspects of systems biology. In response to the same set of questions, the experts develop and defend their personal perspectives on the distinctive character of systems biology and the challenges that lie ahead. Readers are invited to engage with different views on the questions addressed, and may explore numerous themes relating to the philosophy of systems biology. This edited work will appeal to scholars and all levels, from undergraduates to researchers, and to those interested in a variety of scholarly approaches such as systems biology, mathematical and computational modelling, cell and molecular biology, genomics, systems theory, and of course, philosophy of biology.
Author: Marta Bertolaso
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 3030011984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy of science. The focus of discussion is on concrete case studies. These highlight the necessity of a level-dependent description of robust biological behaviors.Experts from the neurosciences, biochemistry, ecology, biology, and the history and the philosophy of life sciences provide a multiplex perspective on the topic. Contributions span from protein folding, to cell-level robustness, to organismal and developmental robustness, to sensorimotor systems, up to the robustness of ecological systems.Several chapters detail neurobiological case-studies. The brain, the poster child of plasticity in biology, offers multiple examples of robustness. Neurobiology explores the importance of temporal organization and multiscalarity in making this robustness-with-plasticity possible. The discussion also includes structures well beyond the brain, such as muscles and the complex feedback loops involved in the peculiar robustness of music perception. Overall, the volume grounds general reflections upon concrete case studies, opening to all the life sciences but also to non-biological and bio-inspired fields such as post-modern engineering. It will appeal to researchers, students, as well as non-expert readers.
Author: Robert S. Cohen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9401026564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1969/1972
Author: Ingolf Lamprecht
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-07-08
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 3110845911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo detailed description available for "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Biological Processes".
Author: Edda Klipp
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-03-28
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 3527675663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis advanced textbook is tailored for an introductory course in Systems Biology and is well-suited for biologists as well as engineers and computer scientists. It comes with student-friendly reading lists and a companion website featuring a short exam prep version of the book and educational modeling programs. The text is written in an easily accessible style and includes numerous worked examples and study questions in each chapter. For this edition, a section on medical systems biology has been included.
Author: James Bryan Lennox
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 3031511166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin E. Feder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780521349383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 1988 book outlines conceptual approaches to the study of physiological adaptation in animals.