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Title: VIABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
CONCEPTS, METHODS AND CASE STUDIES FROM ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
By: Guillaume Deffuant (Editor), Nigel Gilbert (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £99.99


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ISBN 10: 3642204228
ISBN 13: 9783642204227
Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN AND HEIDELBERG GMBH & CO. KG
Pub. date: 3 August, 2011
Edition: 2011 ed.
Series: Understanding Complex Systems
Pages: 224
Description: This book covers new methods of identifying ways to help complex systems recover from perturbations. Examples discussed include bacterial biofilms resisting detachment, savannahs recovering from fire, and Internet social networking sites overcoming vandalism.
Synopsis: One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself. Understanding how such systems demonstrate resilience by absorbing or recovering from major external perturbations requires both quantitative foundations and a multidisciplinary view on the topic. This book demonstrates how new methods can be used to identify the actions favouring the recovery from perturbations. Examples discussed include bacterial biofilms resisting detachment, grassland savannahs recovering from fire, the dynamics of language competition and Internet social networking sites overcoming vandalism. The reader is taken through an introduction to the idea of resilience and viability and shown the mathematical basis of the techniques used to analyse systems. The idea of individual or agent-based modelling of complex systems is introduced and related to analytically tractable approximations of such models. A set of case studies illustrates the use of the techniques in real applications, and the final section describes how one can use new and elaborate software tools for carrying out the necessary calculations.The book is intended for a general scientific audience of readers from the natural and social sciences, yet requires some mathematics to gain a full understanding of the more theoretical chapters. It is an essential point of reference for those interested in the practical application of the concepts of resilience and viability
Illustrations: biography
Publication: Germany
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Returns: Returnable
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