Multiplicity of Time Scales in Complex Systems: Challenges for Sciences and Communication I
Booß-Bavnbek, Bernhelm, Hesselbjerg Christensen, Jens, Richardson, Katherine
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2024-03-05
- 售價: $5,060
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 468
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3031280482
- ISBN-13: 9783031280481
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This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies. The book addresses the vast diversity of interacting processes underlying the behaviour of different complex systems, highlighting the multiplicity of characteristic time scales that are a common feature of many and showcases a rich variety of methodologies across disciplinary boundaries.
Self-organizing, out-of-equilibrium, ever-evolving systems are ubiquitous in the natural and social world. Examples include the climate, ecosystems, living cells, epidemics, the human brain, and many socio-economic systems across history. Their dynamical behaviour poses great challenges in the pressing context of the climate crisis, since they may involve nonlinearities, feedback loops, and the emergence of spatial-temporal patterns, portrayed by resilience or instability, plasticity or rigidity; bifurcations, thresholds and tipping points; burst-in excitation or slow relaxation, and worlds of other asymptotic behaviour, hysteresis, and resistance to change.
Chapters can be read individually by the reader with special interest in such behaviours of particular complex systems or in specific disciplinary perspectives. Read together, however, the case studies, opinion pieces, and meta-studies on MTS systems presented and analysed here combine to give the reader insights that are more than the sum of the book's individual chapters, as surprising similarities become apparent in seemingly disparate and unconnected systems. MTS systems call into question naïve perceptions of time and complexity, moving beyond conventional ways of description, analysis, understanding, modelling, numerical prediction, and prescription of the worldaround us.
This edited collection presents new ways of forecasting, introduces new means of control, and - perhaps as the most demanding task - it singles out a sustainable description of an MTS system under observation, offering a more nuanced interpretation of the floods of quantitative data and images made available by high- and low-frequency measurement tools in our unprecedented era of information flows.商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本高度跨學科的專著匯集了一系列精心挑選的個案研究,探討多時間尺度(MTS)的複雜系統在各個領域中的應用:材料科學、流行病學、細胞生理學、數學、氣候學、能源轉型規劃、生態學、經濟學、社會學、歷史學和文化研究。本書探討了不同複雜系統行為背後相互作用的多樣性過程,突出了許多特徵時間尺度的多樣性,這是許多系統共同具有的特點,並展示了跨學科界限的豐富方法論。
自組織、非平衡、不斷演化的系統在自然和社會世界中無處不在。例如氣候、生態系統、活體細胞、流行病、人腦和許多社經系統在歷史上都是如此。它們的動態行為在氣候危機的迫切背景下帶來了巨大挑戰,因為它們可能涉及非線性、反饋迴路和時空模式的出現,表現為韌性或不穩定性、可塑性或剛性;分歧、閾值和臨界點;爆發性激發或緩慢鬆弛,以及其他漸近行為、滯後現象和抵抗變化。
讀者可以根據對特定複雜系統行為或特定學科觀點的特殊興趣逐章閱讀。然而,這些個案研究、意見文章和關於MTS系統的元研究在一起閱讀時,將為讀者提供超越本書各個章節的洞察力,因為看似不相關和無關聯的系統中出現了令人驚訝的相似之處。MTS系統對時間和複雜性的天真認知提出了質疑,超越了對世界的傳統描述、分析、理解、建模、數值預測和規定的方式。
這本編輯集合提出了新的預測方法,介紹了新的控制手段,並且-也許是最具挑戰性的任務-它選擇了一個可持續描述正在觀察的MTS系統,提供了對於在信息流無處不在的時代中由高頻和低頻測量工具提供的大量定量數據和圖像的更細緻的解釋。
作者簡介
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen is professor in the Department of Physic, Ice, Climate and Earth; Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Katherine Richardson is professor at the Department of Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate at Copenhagen University in Denmark.
Oriol Vallès Codina is research fellow at Leeds University Business School, UK.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek是丹麥Roskilde大學科學與環境系的名譽教授。
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen是丹麥哥本哈根大學物理、冰川、氣候和地球系的教授。
Katherine Richardson是丹麥哥本哈根大學宏觀生態學、演化和氣候系的教授。
Oriol Vallès Codina是英國利茲大學商學院的研究員。