Emergence of Dynamical Order: Synchronization Phenomena in Complex Systems

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Synchronization processes bring about dynamical order and lead tospontaneous development of structural organization in complex systemsof various origins, from chemical oscillators and biological cells tohuman societies and the brain. This book provides a review and adetailed theoretical analysis of synchronization phenomena in complexsystems with different architectures, composed of elements withperiodic or chaotic individual dynamics. Special attention is paid tostatistical concepts, such as nonequilibrium phase transitions, orderparameters and dynamical glasses.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Heterogeneous Ensembles and the Effects of Noise
43
Arrays of LimitCycle Oscillators
83
Chaos and Synchronization
109
Synchronization in Populations of Chaotic Elements
131
Clustering
172
Dynamical Glasses
203
Chemical Systems
227
Biological Cells
273
Neural Networks
303
Bibliography
331
Index
345
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