05342nam 22007335 450 991029986890332120210308111204.03-319-66999-010.1007/978-3-319-66999-1(CKB)3790000000544707(DE-He213)978-3-319-66999-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5214998(PPN)223955736(EXLCZ)99379000000054470720180103d2018 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnergy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society /by Spyros G Tzafestas1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (XXI, 668 p. 276 illus., 143 illus. in color.)Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering,2213-8986 ;903-319-66998-2 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Chapter 1. Life and Human Society: The Five Fundamental Elements -- Chapter 2. Energy I: General Issues -- Chapter 3. Energy II: Thermodynamics -- Chapter 4. Information I: Communication, Transmission, and Information Theory -- Chapter 5. Information II: Science, Technology, and Systems -- Chapter 6. Feedback and Control I: History and Classical Methodologies -- Chapter 7. Feedback and Control II: Modern Methodologies -- Chapter 8. Adaptation, Complexity, and Complex Adaptive Systems -- Chapter 9. Self-Organization -- Chapter 10. Energy in Life and Society -- Chapter 11. Information in Life and Society -- Chapter 12. Feedback Control in Life and Society -- Chapter 13.Adaptation and Self-Organization in Life and Society.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).Automatic controlSociophysicsEconophysicsComputational complexityEnergyElectrical engineeringBioinformaticsControl and Systems Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T19010Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Buildinghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33030Complexityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T11022Energy, generalhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/100000Communications Engineering, Networkshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T24035Bioinformaticshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L15001Automatic control.Sociophysics.Econophysics.Computational complexity.Energy.Electrical engineering.Bioinformatics.Control and Systems Theory.Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.Complexity.Energy, general.Communications Engineering, Networks.Bioinformatics.303.483Tzafestas Spyros Gauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut60244MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910299868903321Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization2544403UNINA