The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a
possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in …

The calculation of rate coefficients is a discipline of nonlinear science of importance to much
of physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. Fifty years after Kramers' seminal paper on …

Now in its second edition, this book gives a systematic and self-contained presentation of
basic results on stochastic evolution equations in infinite dimensional, typically Hilbert and …

Game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from biology to
behavioral sciences to economics. In its evolutionary form and especially when the …

Since the Industrial Revolution the chemical composition of the atmosphere has changed at
a rate unprecedented in recent history. Ozone depletion emerged as one of the most …

This volume is the third edition of the first-ever elementary book on the Langevin equation
method for the solution of problems involving the translational and rotational Brownian …

The concept of stochastic resonance has been introduced previously to describe a curious
phenomenon in bistable systems subject to both periodic and random forcing: an increase in …

Noise in dynamical systems is usually considered a nuisance. But in certain nonlinear
systems, including electronic circuits and biological sensory apparatus, the presence of …

The last two decades have witnessed several advances in microfabrication technologies
and electronics, leading to the development of small, low-power devices for wireless …

IN linear information theory, electrical engineering and neurobiology, random noise has
traditionally been viewed as a detriment to information transmission. Stochastic resonance …