Complex Systems, Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Self-Organisation
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2017) | Viewed by 124897
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last two decades or so, the notion of complex systems has found its way into many different areas of science and humanities, allowing for a quantitative understanding of phenomena that were traditionally studied in a more qualitative fashion. A particularly attractive aspect of complex systems is the emergence of co-operative phenomena, or self-organisation, often driven by non-equilibrium dynamics that relies on an external (energy) source. Such systems seem to be all around us, and govern and represent all that we do and are.
Particular interest in self-organisation and non-equilibrium systems in the form of "active matter" has been generated within the biological sciences with the continued emphasis of more quantitative methods. Pattern or tissue formation may be a particularly good example of a phenomenon suitable for the present issue. Other good examples may be entropy production in sociological and financial systems or recent developments in self-organised criticality.
I would like to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of Entropy on "Complex Systems, Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Self-Organisation". The title is deliberately broad and I would hope to gather together a broad spectrum of contributions concerned with complex or non-equilibrium dynamics resulting in some form of organisation, order, pattern or continued entropy production.
Dr. Gunnar Pruessner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Complexity
- Non-equilibrium
- Self-organisation
- Active matter
- Entropy-production
- Shanon-entropy
- Fluctuation and Correlation
- Pattern formation
- Self-organised Criticality
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