This book contains all invited contributions of an interdisciplinary workshop of the UNESCO working group on systems analysis of the European and North American region entitled "Stochastic Phenomena and Chaotic Behaviour in Complex Systems".

Introductory Remarks.- I General Concepts.- Some Basic Ideas on a Dynamic Information Theory.- Aspects of Optimization and Adaptation.- Relaxed Markov Processes, Jackson Networks and Polymerisation.- II Chaotic Dynamics-Theory.- Noodle-Map Chaos: A Simple Example.- A Mechanism for Spurious Solutions of Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems.- Approach to Equilibrium: Kuzmin’s Theorem for Dissipative and Expanding Maps.- Complex Behaviours in Macrosystems Near Polycritical Points.- III Chaotic Dynamics — Real Systems and Experimental Verification.- Chaos in Classical Mechanics: The Double Pendulum.- Chaos in Continuous Stirred Chemical Reactors.- The Interface Between Mathematical Chaos and Experimental Chemistry.- The Enzyme and the Strange Attractor—Comparisons of Experimental and Numerical Data for an Enzyme Reaction with Chaotic Motion.- Nonuniform Information Processing by Strange Attractors of Chaotic Maps and Flows.- IV Stability and Instability in Dynamical Networks.- Generalized Modes and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.- Dynamics of Linear and Nonlinear Autocatalysis and Competition.- Permanence and Uninvadability for Deterministic Population Models.- V Stochasticity in Complex Systems.- Random Selection and the Neutral Theory—Sources of Stochasticity in Replication.- The Dynamics of Catalytic Hypercycles—A Stochastic Simulation.- Perturbation-Dependent Coexistence and Species Diversity in Ecosystems.- Chance and Necessity in Urban Systems.- Random Phenomena in Nonlinear Systems in Connection with the Volterra Approach.- List of Contributors.

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