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Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures - Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences (Paperback)
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Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures - Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences (Paperback)
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The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects
of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative
structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural
and social sciences. They address both the mathematical methods for
description of pattern and form as they evolve in biological
systems and the mechanisms of the evolution of social systems,
containing many variables responding to subjective, qualitative
stimuli. The mathematical modeling of human systems, especially
those far from thermodynamic equilibrium, must involve both chance
and determinism, aspects both quantitative and qualitative. Such
systems (and the physical states of matter which they resemble) are
referred to as self-organized or dissipative structures in order to
emphasize their dependence on the flows of matter and energy to and
from their surroundings. Some such systems evolve along lines of
inevitable change, but there occur instances of choice, or
bifurcation, when chance is an important factor in the qualitative
modification of structure. Such systems suggest that evolution is
not a system moving toward equilibrium but instead is one which
most aptly evokes the patterns of the living world. The volume is
truly interdisciplinary and should appeal to researchers in both
the physical and social sciences. Based on a workshop on
dissipative structures held in 1978 at the University of Texas,
contributors include Prigogine, A. G. Wilson, Andre de Palma, D.
Kahn, J. L. Deneubourgh, J. W. Stucki, Richard N. Adams, and Erick
Jantsch. The papers presented include Allen, "Self-Organization in
the Urban System"; Robert Herman, "Remarks on Traffic Flow Theories
and the Characterization of Traffic in Cities"; W. H. Zurek and
Schieve, "Nucleation Paradigm: Survival Threshold in Population
Dynamics"; De Palma et al., "Boolean Equations with Temporal
Delays"; Nicholas Georgescu-Roegin, "Energy Analysis and Technology
Assessment"; Magoroh Maruyama, "Four Different Causal Meta-types in
Biological and Social Sciences"; and Jantsch, "From Self-Reference
to Self-Transcendence: The Evolution of Self-Organization
Dynamics."
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