| Preface | p. v |
| Contributors | p. vii |
| List of People Involved in the FIRB Project | p. xi |
| The CNN Paradigm for Complexity | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The 3D-CNN Model | p. 3 |
| E[superscript 3]: An Universal Emulator for Complex Systems | p. 9 |
| Emergence of Forms in 3D-CNNs | p. 12 |
| Initial conditions | p. 13 |
| 3D waves in homogeneous and unhomogeneous media | p. 14 |
| Chua's circuit | p. 16 |
| Lorenz system | p. 17 |
| Rossler system | p. 20 |
| FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model | p. 20 |
| Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model | p. 21 |
| Inferior-Olive neuron model | p. 22 |
| Izhikevich neuron model | p. 26 |
| Neuron model exhibiting homoclinic chaos | p. 27 |
| Conclusions | p. 29 |
| Emergent Phenomena in Neuroscience | p. 39 |
| Introductory Material: Neurons and Models | p. 39 |
| Models of excitability | p. 40 |
| The Hodgkin-Huxley model | p. 41 |
| The FitzHugh-Nagumo model | p. 42 |
| Class I and class II excitability | p. 43 |
| Other neuron models | p. 44 |
| Electronic Implementation of Neuron Models | p. 46 |
| Implementation of single cell neuron dynamics | p. 47 |
| Implementation of systems with many neurons | p. 49 |
| Local Activity Theory for Systems of IO Neurons | p. 54 |
| The theory of local activity for one-port and two-port systems | p. 55 |
| The local activity and the edge of chaos regions of the inferior olive neuron | p. 56 |
| Simulation of IO Systems: Emerging Results | p. 58 |
| The paradigm of local active wave computation for image processing | p. 58 |
| Local active wave computation based paradigm: 3D-shape processing | p. 60 |
| Networks of HR Neurons | p. 63 |
| The neural model | p. 64 |
| Parameters for dynamical analysis | p. 66 |
| Dynamical effects of topology on synchronization | p. 68 |
| Neurons in Presence of Noise | p. 72 |
| Conclusions | p. 79 |
| Frequency Analysis and Identification in Atomic Force Microscopy | p. 83 |
| Introduction | p. 83 |
| AFM Modeling | p. 85 |
| Piecewise interaction force | p. 88 |
| Lennard Jones-like interaction force | p. 88 |
| Frequency Analysis via Harmonic Balance | p. 89 |
| Piecewise interaction model analysis | p. 91 |
| Lennard Jones-like hysteretic model analysis | p. 93 |
| Identification of the Tip-Sample Force Model | p. 95 |
| Identification method | p. 95 |
| Experimental results | p. 98 |
| Conclusions | p. 98 |
| Control and Parameter Estimation of Systems with Low-Dimensional Chaos - The Role of Peak-to-Peak Dynamics | p. 101 |
| Introduction | p. 101 |
| Peak-to-Peak Dynamics | p. 102 |
| Control System Design | p. 105 |
| PPD modeling and control | p. 106 |
| The impact of noise and sampling frequency | p. 109 |
| PPD reconstruction | p. 110 |
| Parameter Estimation | p. 115 |
| Derivation of the "empirical PPP" | p. 116 |
| Interpolation of the "empirical PPP" | p. 117 |
| Optimization | p. 117 |
| Example of application | p. 118 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 121 |
| Synchronization of Complex Networks | p. 123 |
| Introduction | p. 123 |
| Synchronization of Interacting Oscillators | p. 123 |
| From Local to Long-Range Connections | p. 125 |
| The Master Stability Function | p. 126 |
| The case of continuous time systems | p. 126 |
| The Master stability function for coupled maps | p. 131 |
| Key Elements for the Assessing of Synchronizability | p. 132 |
| Bounding the eigenratio [characters not reproducible] | p. 133 |
| Other approaches for assessing synchronizability | p. 134 |
| Synchronizability of Weighted Networks | p. 135 |
| Coupling matrices with a real spectra | p. 135 |
| Numerical simulations | p. 137 |
| Weighting: local vs global approaches | p. 139 |
| Coupling matrices with a complex spectra | p. 140 |
| Essential topological features for synchronizability | p. 143 |
| Synchronization of Coupled Oscillators: Some Significant Results | p. 145 |
| Networks of phase oscillators | p. 145 |
| Networks of coupled oscillators | p. 148 |
| Conclusions | p. 151 |
| Economic Sector Identification in a Set of Stocks Traded at the New York Exchange: A Comparative Analysis | p. 159 |
| Introduction | p. 159 |
| The Data Set | p. 161 |
| Random Matrix Theory | p. 162 |
| Hierarchical Clustering Methods | p. 165 |
| Single linkage correlation based clustering | p. 166 |
| Average linkage correlation based clustering | p. 169 |
| The Planar Maximally Filtered Graph | p. 174 |
| Conclusions | p. 178 |
| Innovation Systems by Nonlinear Networks | p. 181 |
| Introduction | p. 181 |
| Cellular Automata Model | p. 183 |
| Innovation Models Based on CNNs | p. 184 |
| Simulation Results | p. 186 |
| Conclusions | p. 187 |
| Index | p. 189 |
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