Complexity and Diversity

I Overview.- Complexity and Diversity-An Introduction.- Synergetics and Complexity: Emerging New Science and Civilization at the Turn of the Century.- The Set of Boundary Points as a Complex System.- II Mathematical Systems.- On the Complexity of Logic-Dynamics in Brain.- Emergence of Recursivity through Isologous Diversification.- Pattern Recalling Property of Neural Network Modules Integrated by Chaos.- A Complexity Measure of the Internet.- Complexity and Diversity for the Rule Changeable Elementary Cellular Automata.- Generation of Relations between Individuals Using a Stochastic Automaton and the Theory of Change of Attitudes.- Dynamic Learning and Retrieving Scheme Based on Chaotic Neuron Model.- Genetic Evolution of the Subsumption Architecture Which Controles an Autonomous Mobile Robot.- On the Generation and Dissipation of Coherent Structure in Two-Dimensional Vortices.- Dynamics of Two Coupled Inverted Pendulums.- Hamiltonian Dynamics and Statistics of Relaxations.- III Physical Systems.- Complexity in a Molecular String: Hierarchical Structure as is Exemplified in a DNA Chain.- Fractal Distributions-From the Real World to the Information World.- Diversity and Complexity of Patterns in Nonequilibrium Systems-Pattern Formation in Electrohydrodynamic Instability.- Complex Motion of Twin Boundary in Molecular Crystal (TMTSF)2PF6.- Dynamic Scaling of Etched Surface Roughness of LaSrGaO4 Single Crystal by Atomic Force Microscopy.- Scaling Behavior of the Surface Roughness in the Crystallization Process: Transformation of Polycrystalline Si from Amorphous Si.- Al'tshuler-Aronov-Spivak Effect and Quantum Chaos in Ballistic Systems.- Bifurcation and Dynamical Response of Current Oscillations in Semiconductor with NDC.- Intermittency in the Coupled Chaos Oscillators.- Soft-Mode Turbulence in Electrohydrodynamic Convection in Homeotropic System of Hematics.- Temporal Order and Dynamical Critical Phenomena in Sliding Charge-Density Wave Systems.- Competing Instabilities and Localized Traveling Wave in Binary Fluid Mixture.- Experimental Evidence of Marangoni Convection Rolls in Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction.- Localized Traveling Wave Front in Binary Fluid Convection.- Analysis of Concentration of Atmospheric Radon Daughters as a Time Series Data.- IV Living Systems.- Synchronization in the Brain-Unification of Information as the Emergence.- The Developing Xenopus Embryo as a Complex System: Maternal and Zygotic Contribution of Gene Products in Nucleo-Cytoplasmic and Cell-to-Cell Interactions.- Universal Feature of Long-Range Correlations in DNA Sequence: The Intron-Structure in a Single Gene.- Simulation of the Oscillatory Potential Propagation in the Slug's Brain with an Array of Nonlinear Oscillators.- Autonomous Control of Heartbeat as Entrainment between Mechanical Environment and Electrical Rhythms.- Chaotic Behavior of the Hodgikin-Huxley Equations under Small Random Noise.- A Reduction Model for Breaking Phase-Order Preservation in Globally Coupled Oscillators.- Critical Phenomena in Lattice Lotka-Volterra Model: Parity Law and Selfstructuring Extinction Pattern.- V Social Systems.- Complexity and Economics of Institutions.- Forecasting and Stabilizing Economic Fluctuations Using Radial Basis Function Networks.- Parallel Processing Economic System Composed of Individuals under Satisfying Principle.- Model of Public City Image Formation Based on a Positive Feedback Mechanism.- Index of Contributors.- Key Word Index.