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Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization - The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization - The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 90
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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).
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