Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, And Self-organization: The Fundamental Elements Of Life And Society (intelligent Systems, Control And Automation: Science And Engineering)
by Spyros G Tzafestas /
2018 / English / PDF
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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, modulationdemodulation, codingdecoding, 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).
