Modeling Complex Systems (Graduate Texts in Physics)

This book illustrates how models of complex systems are built up and provides indispensable mathematical tools for studying their dynamics. This second edition includes more recent research results and many new and improved worked out examples and exercises. Dr. Nino Boccara is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Ecole Suprieure de Physique et Chimie de la Ville de Paris, and Former Director of Research in Theoretical Physics at the CNRS. How to Build Up a Model.- Differential Equations.- Recurrence Equations.- Chaos.- Spatial Models.- Networks.- Power-Law Distributions.