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The Synchronized Dynamics of Complex Systems Stefano Boccaletti (CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy)

The Synchronized Dynamics of Complex Systems By Stefano Boccaletti (CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy)

Summary

Summarizes the discoveries involving the study of synchronization in coupled chaotic systems. This book describes the complete synchronization phenomenon, both for low and for high dimensional situations, and illustrates possible applications in the field of communicating with chaos. It provides an overview on synchronization phenomena.

The Synchronized Dynamics of Complex Systems Summary

The Synchronized Dynamics of Complex Systems: Volume 6 by Stefano Boccaletti (CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy)

The origin of the word synchronization is a greek root, meaning "to share the common time". The original meaning of synchronization has been maintained up to now in the colloquial use of this word, as agreement or correlation in time of different processes. Historically, the analysis of synchronization phenomena in the evolution of dynamical systems has been a subject of active investigation since the earlier days of physics. Recently, the search for synchronization has moved to chaotic systems. In this latter framework, the appearance of collective (synchronized) dynamics is, in general, not trivial. Indeed, a dynamical system is called chaotic whenever its evolution sensitively depends on the initial conditions. The above said implies that two trajectories emerging from two different closeby initial conditions separate exponentially in the course of the time. As a result, chaotic systems intrinsically defy synchronization, because even two identical systems starting from slightly different initial conditions would evolve in time in a unsynchronized manner (the differences in the systems' states would grow exponentially). This is a relevant practical problem, insofar as experimental initial conditions are never known perfectly. The setting of some collective (synchronized) behavior in coupled chaotic systems has therefore a great importance and interest.The subject of the present book is to summarize the recent discoveries involving the study of synchronization in coupled chaotic systems.Not always the word synchronization is taken as having the same colloquial meaning, and one needs to specify what synchrony means in all particular contexts in which we will describe its emergence.The book describes the complete synchronization phenomenon, both for low and for high dimensional situations, and illustrates possible applications in the field of communicating with chaos.Furthermore, the book summarizes the concepts of phase synchronization, lag synchronization, imperfect phase synchronization, and generalized synchronization, describing a general transition scenario between a hierarchy of different types of synchronization for chaotic oscillators.These concepts are extended to the case of structurally different systems, of uncoupled systems subjected to a common external source, of space extended nonlinearly evolving fields, and of dynamical units networking via a complex wiring of connections, giving thus a summary of all possible situations that are encountered in real life and in technology.

About Stefano Boccaletti (CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy)

Albert C.J. Luo received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1984) and M.S. in Engineering Mechanics (1990) in China and Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics (1996) in Canada. During 1996-1998, he was an NSERC (Canada) post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. From 1998-present, Dr. Luo have worked at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as Assistant/Associate Professor. During 20 year research experience, Dr. Luo developed stochastic and resonant layer theories in nonlinear Hamiltonian systems; a local theory for non-smooth dynamical systems on connectable domains. In addition, Dr, Luo also developed an approximate plate theory; a large damage theory for anisotropic materials and a generalized fractal theory. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr. Luo has served editors for the Journal Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical simulation and two book series on Nonlinear Science and Complexity. Dr. Luo is the editorial member for IMeCh E Part K Journal of Multibody Dynamics and Journal of Vibration and Control. He also organized over 10 international symposiums and conferences on Dynamics and Control.

Table of Contents

1 Preface2 Introduction3 Identical Systems4 Non identical Systems5 Structurally non equivalent Systems6 Effects of noise7 Distributed and Extended Systems8 Complex Networks

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NPB9780444527431
9780444527431
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The Synchronized Dynamics of Complex Systems: Volume 6 by Stefano Boccaletti (CNR-Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy)
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Hardback
Elsevier Science & Technology
2008-02-05
258
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