Evolution Money War And Computers

Author : Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3322910091
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution, Money, War, and Computers written by Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book for physicists, biologists, computer scientists, economists or social scientists shows in selected examples how computer simulation methods which are typical to statistical physics have been applied in other areas outside of physics. Our main part deals with the biology of ageing, while other examples are the functioning of the immune system, the structure of DNA, the fluctuations on the stock market, theories for sociology and for World War II. Are leaky water faucets similar to our heartbeats? Throughout the book we emphasize microscopic models dealing with the action of individuals, whether they are cells of the immune system or traders speculating on the currency market. Complete computer programs are given and explained for biological ageing. The references try to introduce the expert from the covered other fields to the relevant physics literature; and they also show the physicists the way into the biological literature on ageing.

Author : Moss de Oliveira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783322910103
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Evolution, Money, War, and Computers written by Moss de Oliveira and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Lässig
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540456929
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biological Evolution and Statistical Physics written by M. Lässig and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of lecture notes gives a first coherent account of a novel aspect of the living world that can be called biological information. The book presents both a pedagogical and state-of-the art roadmap of this rapidly evolving area and covers the whole field, from information which is encoded in the molecular genetic code to the description of large-scale evolution of complex species networks. The book will prove useful for all those who work at the interface of biology, physics and information science.

Author : Marian Bubak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540259449
Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Science — ICCS 2004 written by Marian Bubak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-11 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2004) held in Krak ́ ow, Poland, June 6–9, 2004, was a follow-up to the highly successful ICCS 2003 held at two locations, in Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia; ICCS 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and ICCS 2001 in San Francisco, USA. As computational science is still evolving in its quest for subjects of inves- gation and e?cient methods, ICCS 2004 was devised as a forum for scientists from mathematics and computer science, as the basic computing disciplines and application areas, interested in advanced computational methods for physics, chemistry, life sciences, engineering, arts and humanities, as well as computer system vendors and software developers. The main objective of this conference was to discuss problems and solutions in all areas, to identify new issues, to shape future directions of research, and to help users apply various advanced computational techniques. The event harvested recent developments in com- tationalgridsandnextgenerationcomputingsystems,tools,advancednumerical methods, data-driven systems, and novel application ?elds, such as complex - stems, ?nance, econo-physics and population evolution.

Author : Frédéric Abergel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319000233
Total Pages : 301 pages
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Download or read book Econophysics of Agent-Based Models written by Frédéric Abergel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary goal of this book is to present the research findings and conclusions of physicists, economists, mathematicians and financial engineers working in the field of "Econophysics" who have undertaken agent-based modelling, comparison with empirical studies and related investigations. Most standard economic models assume the existence of the representative agent, who is “perfectly rational” and applies the utility maximization principle when taking action. One reason for this is the desire to keep models mathematically tractable: no tools are available to economists for solving non-linear models of heterogeneous adaptive agents without explicit optimization. In contrast, multi-agent models, which originated from statistical physics considerations, allow us to go beyond the prototype theories of traditional economics involving the representative agent. This book is based on the Econophys-Kolkata VII Workshop, at which many such modelling efforts were presented. In the book, leading researchers in their fields report on their latest work, consider recent developments and review the contemporary literature.

Author : Parongama Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199662452
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Sociophysics: An Introduction written by Parongama Sen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible applications of statistical physics tools. Unlike the traditional analysis of the physics of macroscopic many-body or condensed matter systems, which is now an established and mature subject, the upsurge in the physical analysis and modelling of social systems, which are clearly many-body dynamical systems, is a recent phenomenon. Though the major developments in sociophysics have taken place only recently, the earliest attempts of proposing "Social Physics" as a discipline are more than one and a half centuries old. Various developments in the mainstream physics of condensed matter systems have inspired and induced the recent growth of sociophysical analysis and models. In spite of the tremendous efforts of many scientists in recent years, the subject is still in its infancy and major challenges are yet to be taken up. An introduction to these challenges is the main motivation for this book.

Author : Jose M.L.M. Palma
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540449426
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vector and Parallel Processing - VECPAR 2000 written by Jose M.L.M. Palma and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-06-29 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the ?nal outcome of VECPAR 2000 – 4th International Meeting on Vector and Parallel Processing. VECPAR constitutes a series of conferences, which have been organized by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto since 1993, with the main objective of disseminating new knowledge on parallel computing. Readership of This Book The book is aimed at an audience of researchers and graduate students in a broad range of scienti?c areas, including not only computer science, but also applied mathematics and numerical analysis, physics, and engineering. Book Plan From a total of 66 papers selected on the basis of extended abstracts for p- sentation at the conference, a subset of 34 papers were chosen during a second review process leading to their inclusion in the book, together with the invited talks. The book contains a total of 40 papers organized into 6 chapters, where each may appeal to people in di?erent but still related scienti?c areas. All ch- ters, with the exception of Chapter 6, are initiated by a short text, providing a quick overview of the organization and papers in the chapter. The 13 papers in Chapter 1 cover the aspects related to the use of multiple processors. Operating systems, languages and software tools for scheduling, and code transformation are the topics included in this chapter, initiated by the talk on computing over the Internet, entitled Grid Computing,byIan Foster.

Author : Roman Wyrzykowski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540480862
Total Pages : 915 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics written by Roman Wyrzykowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2002, held in Naleczow, Poland, in September 2001. The 101 papers presented were carefully reviewed and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book offers topical sections on distributed and grid architectures, scheduling and load balancing, performance analysis and prediction, parallel non-numerical algorithms, parallel programming, tools and environments, parallel numerical algorithms, applications, and evolutionary computing and neural networks.

Author : Dietrich Stauffer
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9810245246
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Reviews of Computational Physics VIII written by Dietrich Stauffer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on an international school on ?Scaling and Disordered Systems? organized by M R H Khajehpour, M R Kolahchi and M Sahimi. Despite the common theme, it covers fields as diverse as basic and applied percolation, and biological prey-predator and ageing simulations. The advantages of computer simulation thus become particularly clear in the reviews, which have been written by leading experts.

Author : Miroslaw Lachowicz
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812837256
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book From Genetics to Mathematics written by Miroslaw Lachowicz and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains pedagogical and elementary introductions to genetics for mathematicians and physicists as well as to mathematical models and techniques of population dynamics. It also offers a physicist''s perspective on modeling biological processes. Each chapter starts with an overview followed by the recent results obtained by authors. Lectures are self-contained and are devoted to various phenomena such as the evolution of the genetic code and genomes, age-structured populations, demography, sympatric speciation, the Penna model, Lotka-Volterra and other predator-prey models, evolutionary models of ecosystems, extinctions of species, and the origin and development of language. Authors analyze their models from the computational and mathematical points of view.