Chaos, Information Processing and Paradoxical Games The Legacy of John S Nicolis

Pt. I. Glimpses at nonlinear dynamics & chaos. ch. 1. Bohmian trajectories in the scattering problem / G. Contopoulos, N. Delis and C. Efthymiopoulos – ch. 2. Scaling properties of the Lorenz system and dissipative Nambu mechanics / Minos Axenides and Emmanuel Floratos – ch. 3. Extreme events in nonlinear lattices / G.P. Tsironis [und weitere] – ch. 4. Coarse graining approach to chaos / Donal MacKernan – ch. 5. Fractal parameter space of Lorenz-like attractors: a hierarchical approach / Tingli Xing [und weitere] – pt. II. Chaos and information. ch. 6. Quantum theory of Jaynes' principle, Bayes' theorem, and information / Hermann Haken – ch. 7. Information processing with Page-Wootters states / Stam Nicolis – ch. 8. Stochastic resonance and information processing / C. Nicolis – ch. 9. Selforganization of symbols and information / Werner Ebeling and Rainer Feistel – pt. III. Biological information processing. ch. 10. Historical contingency in controlled evolution / Peter Schuster – ch. 11. Long-range order and fractality in the structure and organization of eukaryotic genomes / Dimitris Polychronopoulos [und weitere] – ch. 12. Towards resolving the enigma of HOX gene collinearity / Spyros Papageorgiou – pt. IV. Complexity, chaos & cognition. ch. 13. Thermodynamics of cerebral cortex assayed by measures of mass action / Walter J. Freeman – ch. 14. Describing the neuron axons network of the human brain by continuous flow models / J. Hizanidis [und weitere] – ch. 15. Cognition and language: from apprehension to judgment - quantum conjectures / F.T. Arecchi – ch. 16. Dynamical systems++ for a theory of biological system / Kunihiko Kaneko – ch. 17. Logic dynamics for deductive inference - its stability and neural basis / Ichiro Tsuda – pt. V. Dynamical games and collective behaviours. ch. 18. Microscopic approach to species coexistence based on evolutionary game dynamics / Celso Grebogi, Ying-Cheng Lai and Wen-Xu Wang – ch. 19. Phase transitions in models of bird flocking / H. Christodoulidi [und weitere] – ch. 20. Animal construction as a free boundary problem: evidence of fractal scaling laws / S.C. Nicolis – ch. 21. Extended self organised criticality in asynchronously tuned cellular automata / Yukio-Pegio Gunji – pt. VI. Epilogue. A posthumous dialogue with John Nicolis: IERU / Otto E. Rossler