This book presents the concepts needed to deal with self-organizing complexsystems from a unifying point of viewthat uses macroscopic data. The meanings of "information"are discussed. A general formulation of the maximum inform-ation (entropy) principle is used. With aid of synergeticsadequate objective constraints for a large class of systemsare formulated and examples are given from physics andbiology.
- ISBN10 3540186395
- ISBN13 9783540186397
- Publish Date 31 December 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2008
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
- Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 196
- Language English