{"product_id":"9783319669984","title":"Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering: The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIntelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering: The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eTzafestas, Spyros G\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization. It is divided into two parts. Part I is concerned with energy (definition, history, energy types, energy sources, environmental impact); thermodynamics (laws, entropy definitions, energy, branches of thermodynamics, entropy interpretations, arrow of time); information (communication and transmission, modulation–demodulation, coding–decoding, information theory, information technology, information science, information systems); feedback control (history, classical methodologies, modern methodologies); adaptation (definition, mechanisms, measurement, complex adaptive systems, complexity, emergence); and self-organization (definitions\/opinions, self-organized criticality, cybernetics, self-organization in complex adaptive systems, examples in nature).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn turn, Part II studies the roles,impacts, and applications of the five above-mentioned elements in life and society, namely energy (biochemical energy pathways, energy flows through food chains, evolution of energy resources, energy and economy); information (information in biology, biocomputation, information technology in office automation, power generation\/distribution, manufacturing, business, transportation), feedback (temperature, water, sugar and hydrogen ion regulation, autocatalysis, biological modeling, control of hard\/technological and soft\/managerial systems), adaptation and self-organization (ecosystems, climate change, stock market, knowledge management, man-made self-organized controllers, traffic lights control).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-01-15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319669984\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-66999-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 668\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45379153002636,"sku":"9783319669984","price":197.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319669984.jpg?v=1779041539","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319669984","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}