The elements of feedback and control

Hardie, Alexander Merrie

Published by Oxford U.O

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Title: The elements of feedback and control
Publisher: Oxford U.O
Binding: Hardcover
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Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization: The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society: 90 (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering)

Tzafestas, Spyros G

Published by Springer, 2018

ISBN 10: 3319669982 ISBN 13: 9783319669984

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Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. 1. Auflage. privately owned book. new from the publisher. remains wrapped in plastic. - 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). 692 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # ABE-1691057608812

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